“IN MEMORIAM: FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE She whom we love, our Lady of Compassion, Can never die, for Love forbids her death. Love has bent down in his old kindly fashion, And breathed upon her his immortal breath. On wounded soldiers, in their anguish lying, Her gentle spirit shall descend like rain. Where the white flag with the red cross is flying, There shall she dwell, the vanquisher of pain.” PainSpiritLyingDiesWhiteCompassionFashionRedRainCrossesBreathsSoldierFlyingGentleImmortalFlagsWoundedBentAnguishNightingalesFlorenceRed CrossWhite FlagFlorence NightingaleWounded SoldierGentle Spirit Book:Summer of Love Source: Summer of Love
“Death is unimportant to a yogi; he does not mind when he is going to die. What happens after death is immaterial to him. He is only concerned with life-with how he can use his life for the betterment of humanity. Having undergone various types of pain in his life and having acquired a certain mastery over pain, he develops compassion to help society and maintains himself in purity and holiness. The yogi has no interest beyond that.” MindDoeHelpingUseHappensPainCertainHumanityDiesInterestCompassionTypeConcernedVariousPurityHolinessMasteryAfter DeathUnimportantBettermentYogi Author:B.K.S. Iyengar
“Grief does not end and love does not die and nothing fills its graven place. With grace, pain is transmuted into the gold of wisdom and compassion and the lesser coin of muted sadness and resignation; but something leaden of it remains, to become the kernel arond which more pain accretes (a black pearl): one pain becomes every other pain ... unless one strips away, one by one, the layers of pain to get to the heart of the pain - and this causes more pain, pain so intense as to feel like evisceration.” FeelsHeartDoeEndsPainSufferingDiesCausesBlackGriefCompassionGraceSadnessGoldAnd LoveRemainsIntenseLayersPearlsCoinsResignationKernelBlack Pearl Author:Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
“There is no incompatibility between moral clarity and intellectual firepower, between faith in God and humility -- in fact, they're mutually dependent, between a strong conviction that we must go to war and an abundant compassion for any that may die as a result, and between political conservatism and personal decency.” MayWarFactsPoliticalDiesStrongResultsCompassionMoralHumilityIntellectualConvictionClarityDependentFaith In GodDecencyConservatismIncompatibility Author:David Limbaugh
“From looking at your neighbor and realizing his true significance, and that he will die, pity and compassion will arise in you for him and finally you will love him.” DiesRealizingCompassionNeighborArisePitySignificance Author:G. I. Gurdjieff