“It takes discipline and compassion to awaken the divine in ourselves long enough to recognize the divine in another.” LongEnoughCompassionDivineDisciplineDistanceLong DistanceDistance RelationshipLong Distance Relationship Book:Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life
“There can be no doubt that the young of today have to be protected against certain poisonous effects inherent in present-day civilization. Five social diseases surround them, even in early childhood. There is the decline in fitness due to modern methods of locomotion; the decline in initiative due to the widespread disease of spectatoritis; the decline in care and skill due to the weakened tradition of craftsmanship; the decline in self-discipline due to the ever-present availability of tranquilizers and stimulants, and the decline in compassion, which William Temple called "spiritual death.” SelfCareTodaySpiritualYoungCertainSocialCompassionDoubtFiveModernChildhoodEffectsDisciplineCivilizationSkillsDiseaseTraditionMethodDuesNo DoubtTemplesSurroundDeclineProtectedInitiativeInherentSelf DisciplinePresent DayPoisonousAvailabilityEarly ChildhoodCraftsmanshipStimulantsSpiritual Death Author:Kurt Hahn
“When we use punishment, our children are robbed of the opportunity to develop their own inner discipline-the ability to act with integrity, wisdom, compassion, and mercy when there is no external force holding them accountable for what they do.” ChildrenUseOpportunityForceAbilityCompassionDisciplineIntegrityMercyOur ChildrenPunishmentExternal Forces Author:Barbara Coloroso
“That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of its object.” KindCompassionObjectsDisciplinePunishmentManifestationTendernessSeverity Author:Hosea Ballou
“Imaginative compassion for that which is other than myself is a constant artistic and ethical discipline.” CompassionDisciplineConstantArtisticEthicalImaginative Book:Art as Medicine Source: Art as Medicine
“Those who don't have a life filled with luxury may have a home filled with compassion, based on their choice to be content and to practice self-discipline. Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.” MaySelfHomeChoicesCompassionPracticeDisciplineFilledLuxuryHardshipSelf DisciplineVery Happy Author:Dalai Lama
“Religions have found that if you behave in a certain way, if you sort of perform certain rituals that expand your mind and make you realize that will make you realize and help you to seguey into transcendence and perform certain acts, adopt a certain lifestyle, you develop new capacities of mind and heart, just like the dancer, or the athlete that make you into a whole human being and principle after one of these disciplines right across the board in all of the faiths is compassion, the ability to feel with the other person.” IfsWayFeelsMindHumansHeartPersonsWholeHelpingCertainFoundRealizingHuman BeingsAbilityCompassionPrinciplesDisciplineCapacityAthleteLifestyleBehaveBoardsDancerRitualHeart And MindTranscendence Author:Karen Armstrong
“Compassion has to become a discipline. It's something that you do. It's no good thinking that you agree with compassion or not, you've just got to do it. Just like it's no good agreeing that it's possible to float, you just have to get into the pool and then you learn that it's possible.” ThinkingCompassionDisciplineAgreePoolFloatsGood Thinking Author:Karen Armstrong
“Honesty comes only with sound health, physically and psychologically, and an honest mind cannot be separated from the most genuine acknowledgment of expression. It should be recognized that pure perfection is unobtainable. Therefore, the realization that one's irrevocable faults and deficiencies must be faced guides us toward the first step of learning. We must each accept any situation as it actually is, with dignity. In that fine balance of acceptance of self and the mission to better oneself, compassion, humility, and discipline are nurtured.” ShouldMindFirstsSelfSoundCompassionSituationAcceptingStepsHonestHonestyAcceptanceHumilityExpressionFineBalanceDisciplinePureDignityPerfectionFaultsOneselfMissionsGuidesGenuineRealizationSelf AcceptanceFirst StepsDeficiencyAcknowledgmentIrrevocable Author:Midori Goto
“Throughout his many years, he enriched the lives of countless others and served as a model of generosity and discipline to those he met, fostering an atmosphere of compassion, harmony, and unity. Sri Chinmoy was a leader, humanitarian, artist, athlete, and public servant who will be sorely missed. His legacy of kindness, reflection, and resolve will endure for many years to come.” YearsArtistCompassionLeaderKindnessDisciplineMetsModelsReflectionHarmonyUnityEndureAthleteHumanitarianGenerosityLegacyAtmosphereServantResolvePublic ServantsFostering Author:William J. Clinton
“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
“As I see it, the greatest responsibility of motherhood is to make sure that our children know that there are principles of kindness, compassion, integrity, excellence, and discipline.” KnowsChildrenResponsibilityCompassionPrinciplesKindnessDisciplineIntegrityOur ChildrenExcellenceMotherhood Author:Marianne Williamson
“The more truthful I am with myself and others, the more my conscience is clear and tranquil. Thus, I can more thoroughly and unequivocally inhabit the present moment and accept everything that happens without fear, knowing that what goes around comes around (the law of karma). Ethical morality and self-discipline represent the good ground, or stable basis. Mindful awareness is the skillful and efficacious grow-path, or way. Wisdom and compassion constitute the fruit, or result. This is the essence of Buddhism [...]” WayI CanSelfMomentsHappensLawGrowsResultsCompassionAcceptingKnowingPathClearAwarenessBuddhismDisciplineMoralityConscienceEssenceBasesFruitKarmaPresent MomentEthicalStableTruthfulSelf DisciplineTranquilSkillfulGoes Around Comes AroundLaw Of Karma Author:Surya Das
“Some people find the experience and practice of compassion as a spiritual discipline to be a more direct route to the transformation of the heart than prayer. It is not that prayer does not or should not play a role in their lives, but their way to the opening of the heart lies through deeds of compassion. "Just do it" summarizes this path of transformation.” PeopleWayShouldHeartDoePlaySpiritualLyingPrayerCompassionRolesPracticePathDisciplineDirectTransformationDeedsOpeningRoutesJust Do ItSpiritual Disciplines Author:Marcus Borg
“Western liberal humanism is not something that comes naturally to us: like an appreciation of art or poetry, it has to be cultivated. Humanism is itself a religion without God-not all religions, of course, are theistic. Our ethical secular ideal has it's own disciplines of mind and heart and gives people the means of finding faith in the ultimate meaning of human life that were once provided by the more conventional religions.” PeopleGivingMindHumansHeartMeanArtCoursesCompassionDisciplineFindingsEthicsIdealsUltimateWesternHumanismAppreciationHuman LifeEthicalConventionalSecularHeart And MindWithout God Author:Karen Armstrong
“WOMEN preserve the culture of this country with greater tenacity and faith. They keep men on the moral path and inspire them to follow spiritual discipline. Their hearts are tender and full of compassion for the hungry and the distressed. That is why in this land, women are adored and revered.” MenHeartCountrySpiritualCultureCompassionMoralPathGreaterLandInspireDisciplineHungryPreservesTenacitySpiritual Disciplines Author:Sathya Sai Baba