“What acts as a far more effective circumstance for generating compassion and what, in fact, rouses us from our comfortable meditation seat is actually seeing or hearing others - encountering others directly, not just conceptually in our imagination.” FactsImaginationCompassionMeditationSeeingCircumstancesComfortableHearingSeats Book:The Gelug/Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra Source: The Gelug/Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra
“As Shantideva says, suffering has many good qualities because it purifies our negative karma, increases our renunciation and compassion, reduces our pride, and helps us to overcome our bad mental habits. If we think in this way we will feel that difficult circumstances are our best friends. When our mind is balanced in this way it becomes as stable as Mount Meru, and nothing can cause it to shake.” IfsThinkingWayFeelsMindHelpingSufferingCausesDifficultQualityCompassionPrideFriendsHabitBalanceCircumstancesNegativeOvercomingIncreaseKarmaShakesStableBalancedRenunciationGood QualityDifficult CircumstancesNegative Karma Author:Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
“If pity was always equally alive and acting in all individuals and in all circumstances, we could do away with moral. Unfortunately, it is not compassion, but rather it's contrary, selfishness, that act most strongly in us.” IfsIndividualActingCompassionMoralAliveCircumstancesContraryPitySelfishness Author:African Spir
“I have not lost Allah's hope in us to show compassion where none exists and to extend mercy in the most difficult of circumstances. We as Muslims must lead by example.” ShowsLostDifficultCompassionExampleCircumstancesMercy Author:Muhammad Ali
“Parents walk a fine line between discipline and grace - values have to hold even when circumstances change or call for compromise or compassion. It's the ultimate challenge to be both firm and fluid, soft and strong, yielding yet rock solid.” ValuesStrongParentChallengesLinesWalksCompassionGraceRocksFineDisciplineCircumstancesUltimateCompromiseFirmFluidFine Lines Author:Kristin Armstrong
“Real religion is about, developing real character; character of compassion, character of humility, the character of determination to grow in all circumstances.” RealCharacterGrowsCompassionHumilityCircumstancesDeterminationDevelopingReal Character Author:Radhanath Swami
“Acting is kind of a forced compassion, where you learn that given certain circumstances, you can feel and do things that you never thought yourself capable of. And so it stops you from being super-judgmental.” FeelsKindCertainGivenActingCompassionCircumstancesCapableJudgmental Author:Susan Sarandon
“Compassion is the belief that things might improve, and even when there's little, if anything, to sustain and engender that belief. It's the place from which I write, and the more troubled the circumstances, the deeper into the hearts and psyches of these characters I'm likely to go, opening every door in that dark hallway, and walking all the way in.” WritingHeartCharacterBeliefDarkCompassionCircumstancesWalkingPsych Author:Jack Driscoll
“We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.” MenWayLifeGivingHumansMayHas BeensLastsRememberGivenPeaceLeadershipFreedomNumbersAttitudeCompassionTakenPiecesOne ThingPositiveCircumstancesOffersProofBreadPositive AttitudeSufficientConcentrationCampsGenocideHolocaustComfortingSearch For MeaningHuman FreedomConcentration CampHutsWinning AttitudeFreedom To ChooseKeep A Positive AttitudeMans Search For MeaningAttitude Is EverythingGreat Positive AttitudeAttitudes And SuccessPositive Attitude And SuccessHuman CompassionHave A Great DayCan Do AttitudeStimulus And ResponseNeurologists Book:Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition Source: Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition