Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

Too often, people think that solving the world's problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground.

Hope and fear cannot alter the season.

Fearlessness is extending ourselves beyond our limited view.

Buddhism doesnt tell you what is false and what is true but it encourages you to find out for yourself.

A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people dont appreciate themselves.

Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news

Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence. It cannot be compared to anything else it is so sharp precise obvious and direct. If we can open then we suddenly begin to see that our expectations are irrelevant compared with the reality of the situations we are facing.

Disappointment results from the removal of illusion.

Enlightenment is egos ultimate disappointment.

The attainment of enlightenment from egos point of view is extreme death the death of self the death of me and mine the death of the watcher. It is the ultimate and final disappointment.

Habit is formed out of memory... We often shape our present situation according to those habitual memories. Instead of starting fresh we go back to what weve done in the past... easier for us than fighting our way through foreign territory.

Our life is an endless journey; it is like a broad highway that extends infinitely into the distance. The practice of meditation provides a vehicle to travel on that road. Our journey consists of constant ups and downs

Luxury is experiencing reality.

Mindfulness is like a microscope; it is neither an offensive nor defensive weapon in relation to the germs we observe through it. The function of the microscope is just to clearly present what is there.

Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of the extreme impulse

It's easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.

We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.

To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.

The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery.

The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.

Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated.

At the end of the day, love and compassion will win.

The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time.

Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.

I am so proud of Michigan's citizens for the kindness and generosity they have shown in assisting in this endeavor. It is truly heartwarming to see the compassion shown for those in need.

Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference.

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

What President Bush has done speaks more than words about his feeling of compassion and commitment to people.

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.

In times such as these, people should recognize that evil knows no borders, knows no limits and knows no compassion. Those around the globe that value freedom must continue to persevere even in the darkest of times.

I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

I think one of the best words in the English language is compassion. I think it holds everything. It holds love, it holds care... and if everybody just did something. We all make a difference.

I don't think, there's no possible way for me, anyway, to play a character that I haven't found some sort of sublime compassion for and I related to Deborah on a way that almost, initially, almost in a way maybe someone in the audience might.

Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.

Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

Compassion is a two way street.

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.