“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
“Apart from selfish reasons, such as fear of punishments, fear of blame, of dishonour, etc, there remains only two motives that can stop (or prevent, "empâecher", Fr.) men from acting badly; the natural sense of commiseration (or "sympathy", - "commisération", Fr.) for one's fellow men - compassion, and the influence of education, by association of ideas ("par l'association d'idées", Fr.) - habit.” MenTwoIdeasReasonNaturalActingCompassionInfluenceHabitFellowsBlameRemainsSelfishPunishmentMotiveEtcAssociationFellow ManRationsDishonourSelfish ReasonsActing Badly Author:African Spir
“When virtuous mental attitudes, like mindfulness, respect, and compassion, are invoked to justify nonvirtuous acts like hunting, fishing, and eating animal products, the mental attitudes are insincere. They are self-deceptions that we create to justify habits that in our hearts we know are wrong, but to which we have become attached.” KnowsHeartSelfAnimalAttitudeCompassionProductsHabitMindfulnessEatingBuddhistDeceptionFishingJustifyHuntingVirtuousSelf DeceptionMental AttitudeEating AnimalsInsincere Author:Norm Phelps
“Compassion for animals is something that every child has naturally but they are lured away from these instincts by society's nasty habits.” ChildrenAnimalCompassionHabitInstinctNastyAnimal Compassion Author:Dan Mathews
“Eat by Choice, Not by Habit combines the author's humor, deep compassion for others and knowledge about food in a way that makes me eager to follow her lead toward healthy eating-and more importantly, toward a healthy attitude about eating. She aptly teaches us all to frame our food issues in a language that is both liberating and comforting.” WayChoicesLanguageAttitudeCompassionTeachIssuesCommunicationHabitHealthyEatingComfortingLiberatingNonviolent CommunicationHealthy EatingCompassion For Others Author:Judith Hanson Lasater
“We can have skills training in mindfulness so that we are using our attention to perceive something in the present moment. This perception is not so latent by fears or projections into the future, or old habits, and then I can actually stir loving-kindness or compassion in skills training too, which can be sort of provocative, I found.” I CanMomentsFoundAttentionCompassionKindnessHabitSkillsPerceptionMindfulnessTrainingPerceivePresent MomentProjectionProvocativeLatentLoving KindnessOld HabitsSkills Training Author:Sharon Salzberg
“There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.” IfsMenFeelingsIndividualCompassionHabitMoralityEatingCapableDirectFellowsIndependenceDoctrineFellow ManEating OutFellow Feeling Book:Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)