Buddhist Quote by Norm Phelps Download Open image “It is a feeble compassion that pulls up short where self-interest begins.” — Norm Phelps ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Buddhist Compassion Greed Interest Pull ups Self Self interest
Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self. — Arnold Toynbee Copy Share Image
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Compassion is the heart that never stops loving others. It is like a wellspring that never runs dry. — Ryuho Okawa Copy Share Image
Compassion is the ability to see what needs doing right now and the willingness to do it right now. — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Veganism is simply letting compassion guide our choice of food. As such, it is a basic Buddhist practice that ought to be expected of… — Norm Phelps Copy Share Image
When virtuous mental attitudes, like mindfulness, respect, and compassion, are invoked to justify nonvirtuous acts like hunting, fishing, and eating animal products, the mental… — Norm Phelps Copy Share Image
The Buddha's teaching leads us to the realization that we must always strive to harm no sentient being, human or nonhuman, whether or not… — Norm Phelps Copy Share Image
If we are not able to bring the churches, the synagogues, [and] the mosques around to the animal rights view, we will never make… — Norm Phelps Copy Share Image
Farmed animals are not future Buddhas donating their flesh out of compassion for those of us who have developed a craving for it. They… — Norm Phelps Copy Share Image
The beginning of mindful eating is the realization that eating meat is not about the meat-eater; it is about the animals who are tormented… — Norm Phelps Copy Share Image
Buddhism cannot be true to itself until Buddhists resolve their ambivalence toward nonhuman animals and extend the full protection of their compassion to the… — Norm Phelps Copy Share Image
When we hunt or fish, we deliberately kill a defenseless being who wishes us no harm. This is a direct violation of the First… — Norm Phelps Copy Share Image
One of the things I regret about not putting in that book or I think it's there but I didn't really elaborate on it,… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
One of his students asked Buddha, "Are you the Messiah?" "No," answered Buddha. "Then are you a healer?" "No," Buddha replied. "Then are you… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Be lamps unto yourselves. Be refuges unto yourselves. Take yourself no external refuge. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp. Hold fast to… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Humility simply means that you do a great job at everything and it isn't really a big deal. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I don't look at anything. Every person whether he is Hindu, Muslim or Buddhist, he is my brother, my sister. I think we all… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions. — Whoopi Goldberg Copy Share Image
I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Buddhist words such as compassion and emptiness don't mean much until we start cultivating our innate ability simply to be there with pain with… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Even my Buddhist friends have been feeling despair and when they go bad, you know the end is nigh.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
