“Compassion simply stated is leaving other people alone.”
Source: Grist for the Mill: The Mellow Drama, Dying: An Opportunity for Awakening, Freeing the Mind, Karmuppance, God & Beyond
“Honesty requires that we communicate our thoughts and feelings, not our conclusions.”
Source: Real-Time Relationships: The Logic of Love
“Self-love is about slipping up, having the bad days and loving ourselves despite of them, forgiving ourselves and, most importantly, having compassion for ourselves and how we’re feeling. So, give yourself permission to fall down, but don’t give yourself permission to stay there.”
Source: The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment
“His Holiness the Dalai Lama does Yamantaka self-initiation every day. He has said that when he does, he keeps Geshe Kelsang in his heart. Geshe Kelsang is totally against His Holiness; he demonstrates and criticizes so much, but His Holiness says he keeps him in his heart. He told us this.”
Source: Sun of Devotion, Stream of Blessings
“Deep down all souls are innocent but they're caught up in a ruthless game.”
“There is no mountain or valley in the world that is covered with fog and does not look beautiful! And there is no one in the world whose heart is covered with mercy and does not have a beautiful heart!”
“Compassion is a built-in feature that explains oneness.”
“If our strength in learning the arts is not turned to weakness, that is, in coming down along side to console and comfort, attending the infirm, the poor, the needy and the elderly, then we have pathetically failed with our true art, the art of humanity–of life. If this is so, all of our studies have been, like a warped, pitiless, cruel pile of cold rusty scrap metal on a gray drizzly day, in vain. If this lesson is too tough for us, we must remember that it is Jesus’ preferred way. He comes along side the sick, the feeble, the downtrodden, even the most wretched, disgusting and perverse. As He hung upon that splintˊry red cross and imparts His Spirit to all who seek Him, no, not even the fiery excelsior angels of the Highest Courts of Heaven have an excuse not to unflinchingly obey the clarion call of Him who beckons us to reach out and help lift from the mud those who cannot get up.
(Martial Arts on Noah's Ark)”
“He was breaking into pieces, falling, fluid, boundaryless, merging into Nani Maa, just one giant heart that felt her fear, her sadness, her goodness, her pride, her love, like his own.”
Source: The Yoga of Max's Discontent
“Without compassion, there is no charity.”