compassion

Take off that coat,' he told him.'Sir?''You heard me.'The boy slipped out of his jacket, whining, 'What you gonna do? What I'm gonna wear?'The man untied the baby from her chest and wrapped it in the boy's coat, knotting the sleeves in front.'What I'm gonna wear?'The old man sighed and, after a pause, said, 'You want it back then go head and take it off that baby. Put the baby naked in the grass and put your coat back on. And if you can do it, then go on 'way somewhere and don't come back.

Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.

Compassion: a robust dance between grace and wisdom.

When emotions turn and stay sour, when thoughts become cynical and judgmental, good and compassionate treatment is on the line. Helpers who become sour and cynical tend to begrudge their high need clients for their neediness. There is a risk that helpers become too well-practiced at taking a bleak view of those they have avowed to assist. There is a temptation to begin to blame clients for their failure to improve. If treatment ends pre-maturely, with either a client never returning to treatment or a helper 'firing' them out of frustration, there is a tendency for the client to take the fall. Of course what we are talking about here are signs of burnout.

Now, are those engaged in the business of governing any different by nature from those they govern?""Yes. They're prideful and tend to sexual misconduct. Also, the situation of being in government tends to drive you mad.""But are they more virtuous or more intelligent? Or more compassionate?""Ha!""Let's call that one a 'no.

For once the crofter was at a a rather loss for words, for to him nothing has ever been more completely unintelligible than the reasoning that is bred of tears.

The author reveals a cultural change that took place when clergy were paid based on a tax on the land's value rather than what it produced. This meant that, while parishioners could suffer through a terrible year, clergy would always have a comfortable one.

We can see Spirit made visible when people are kind to one another, especially when it's a really busy person, like you, taking care of a needy, annoying, neurotic person, like you.

Don't hate the bullies. Experience tells me that hating them, or being angry with them, will always make it worse. Instead, put your arm around them. Love them. Tell them that they are valuable. Tell them that you expect great things from them. They will stop the bullying. They will stop, because they will start to love themselves. And people who love themselves don__ bully others.

In the evangelical world, prying can be an indicator of compassion.

Some energies are not as potent. The only way to develop a potent energy is to spend an existence on the earth. There, one can develop a compassionate nature so that when passing onto other dimensions, one can be of help. When one leaves one__ earth body one will need to fully understand compassion to be helpful, effective. On earth, you are encapsulated in flesh...No soul is forced into an assignment upon the earth. Instead they go to their __ightful space_. When you leave the earth you have a lot more power. It won__ be ego-based power. Rather it will be beyond ego, beyond good and evil. In fact, __vil_ is just a label as everything is intermixed. The pendulum just appears to swing back and forth._..."Kuan Yin is showing me a person running with sandbags. She__ telling me that when the person finally lets-go of the sandbags, she or he is faster, stronger. Oh. I get it! That__ what the earth existence is like. In many ways living on earth is an __rtificial_ burden. Once one is free of one__ body, they are not only lighter but also stronger, more powerful. I__ reminded of a time when I was a child. I felt so limited. I remember thinking, __hy can__ I just be wherever I want to be and physically not have to walk or use transportation? Why do I have to physically cross the street?__-Lena Lees

Ayurveda teaches us to love "as is" - not as we think people "should be.

If compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics," Ford said, "then something is the matter with politics.

Just because she isn't human, do you think that means she doesn't feel pain?

There is no force in the world better able to alter anything from its course than love.

If only this great concern we have for our own sensitive feelings expanded to encompass the feelings of our fellow men.

To sense which gifts to accept & which to leave behind is our path to discovering freedom.

It is only once you see the baffled expression on the face of your enemy when you give his cruel words a warm smile that you__l understand, truly understand, what love is all about.