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“Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.”

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Thomas Merton (January 31, 1915 - December 10, 1968) was an American writer, poet, social critic, and mystic. His works covered a wide range of topics including philosophy, religion, and social justice, and were highly appreciated by readers. more

“Polls show that most people in the world favor humbler, more compassionate solutions to our common problems. Not only favor them but, resolving to love in a more complete and final way, try to put them into action. A society based on universal compassion is not just our only hope; it is an evolutionary imperative.”

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Book:The Compassionate Life: Walking the Path of Kindness

Source: The Compassionate Life: Walking the Path of Kindness

“What I want in my life is compassion a flow between myself and others based on mutual giving from the heart.”

Want Giving Heart Life Is Compassion Flow Mutual Nonviolent Communication

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“My grandmother lived in a universe filled with life. It was impossible for her to conceive of any creature - even the smallest insect, let alone a human being - as insignificant. In every leaf, flower, animal, and star she saw an expression of a compassionate universe, whose laws were not competition and survival of the fittest but cooperation, artistry and thrift. . . .”

“The earth was our home, she would have said, but no less was it home to the oxen that pulled our plows or the elephants that roamed in the forest and worked for us. They lived with us as partners whose well-being was inseparable from our own.”

Wells Said Home Earth Compassion Partners Forests Well Being Elephants Inseparable Oxen

Book:The Compassionate Universe: The Power of the Individual to Heal the Environment

Source: The Compassionate Universe: The Power of the Individual to Heal the Environment

“To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.”

Age Passion Grows Compassion Aging

Book:Carnets: 1942-1951

Source: Carnets: 1942-1951

“The nectar of compassion is so wonderful. If you are committed to keeping it alive, then you are protected. What the other person says will not touch off the anger and irritation in you, because compassion is the real antidote to anger. Nothing can heal anger except compassion. That is why the practice of compassion is a very wonderful practice.”

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Book:Anger

Source: Anger

“A second quality of mature sirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.”

Self Quality Compassion Kindness Acceptance Fundamentals Notion Mature Self Acceptance

Author:Jack Kornfield

“In this time of globalization, with all its advantages, the poor are the most vulnerable to having their traditions, relationships and knowledge and skills ignored and denigrated, and experiencing development with a great sense of trauma, loss and social disconnectedness.”

Culture Social Loss Poor Development Skills Advantage Tradition Trauma Vulnerable Ignored Globalization Disconnectedness

Author:James Wolfensohn

“Iran's experience shows that when religious scholars and UNFPA work together to solve reproductive health issues, there can be excellent results.”

Shows Together Culture Religious Results Issues Solve Excellent Working Together Iran Scholar Health Issues Reproductive Health

Author:Hossein Malek-Afzali

“Culture is a matrix of infinite possibilities and choices. From within the same culture matrix we can extract arguments and strategies for the degradation and ennoblement of our species, for its enslavement or liberation, for the suppression of its productive potential or its enhancement.”

Choices Culture Possibility Argument Infinite Strategy Species Liberation Productive Degradation Suppression Infinite Possibilities Enslavement Enhancement

Author:Wole Soyinka

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