“Individual becomes holy when they step across the self.”
Source: Mucize Insan: When The World is Family
“Rembrandt portrays the father as the man who has transcended the ways of his children. His own loneliness and anger may have been there, but they have been transformed by suffering and tears. I see the immense beauty of the father’s emptiness and compassion.”
Source: The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming
“Godhet finnes, medfølelse og solidaritet er lett å observere for eksempel hos elefanter, aper, fugler. Noen ganger også hos mennesker.”
Source: Ung trost klokken fem om morgenen i en brusende alm. Et dikt fra januar til september
“When the suffering of another creature causes you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial desire to flee from the suffering one, but on the contrary, come closer, as close as you can to him who suffers, and try to help him.”
“Waterfalls of Kindness
You say I love too much
But I say you love too little
In a world where you can
Give and live
I drip in kindness
And watch it trickle
Because sometimes
The most important words
Are the ones we cannot hear”
Source: Finding My Light
“When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight. When you see in yourself the wish that the other person stop suffering, that is a sign of real love.”
Source: Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
“Responding well to others, especially survivors of wrongdoing, may require that we open ourselves to hearing something other than what we expect or want to hear, even when what we hear threatens our ideas about how the world is ordered—as listening to survivor testimony might do. Only a self capable of being jolted out of its mundane complacency is up to the task of both hearing what repair demands and helping to invent new responses to harms that no preexisting remedy fully comprehends.”
Source: Ethical Loneliness: The Injustice of Not Being Heard
“While trying to change how others see us, we often forget to change how we see ourselves.”
“Compassion permeates all the way to the farthest reaches of the world.”
“When your mind is liberated your heart floods with compassion: compassion for yourself, for having undergone countless sufferings because because you were not yet able to relieve yourself of false views, hatred, ignorance, and anger; and compassion for others because they do not yet see and are still imprisoned by false views, hatred, and ignorance and continue to create suffering for themselves and others.”
Source: The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation