compassion

Approaching this day with optimism and fire, with patience and determination, with compassion and love.

Compassion is a verb.

Humans _ who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals _ have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and 'animals' is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them _ without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret. It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer. The behavior of other animals renders such pretensions specious. They are just too much like us.

We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear," he said. "Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek.

A dog has the soul of a philosopher.

And when I came in with tears in my eyes, you always knew whether I needed you to hold me or just let me be. I don't know how you knew, but you did, and you made it easier for me.

While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.

We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace.

Nothing that we despise in other men is inherently absent from ourselves. We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or don't do, and more in light of what they suffer.

It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.

We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

Compassion is, by definition, relational. Compassion literally means __o suffer with,_ which implies a basic mutuality in the experience of suffering. The emotion of compassion springs from the recognition that the human experience is imperfect.

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

O my son Absalom,' Bean said softly, knowing for the first time the kind of anguish that could tear such words from a man__ mouth. 'my son, my son Absalom. Would God I could die for thee, O Absalom, my son. My sons!

The exaggerated dopamine sensitivity of the introvert leads one to believe that when in public, introverts, regardless of its validity, often feel to be the center of (unwanted) attention hence rarely craving attention. Extroverts, on the other hand, seem to never get enough attention. So on the flip side it seems as though the introvert is in a sense very external and the extrovert is in a sense very internal - the introvert constantly feels too much 'outerness' while the extrovert doesn't feel enough 'outerness'.