“Forgiveness entails the authentic acceptance of our own worthiness as human beings, the understanding that mistakes are opportunities for growth, awareness and the cultivation of compassion, and the realization that the extension of love to ourselves and others is the glue that holds the universe together. Forgiveness...is not a set of behaviors, but an attitude.” HumansTogetherUniverseOpportunityUnderstandingGrowthHuman BeingsMistakeAttitudeCompassionAwarenessAcceptanceBehaviorForgivenessRealizationExtensionsWorthinessGlueCultivation Author:Joan Z. Borysenko
“Without doubt machines will be able to determine the means and avenues to goals, but men will continue to set the goals themselves. For what machine can ever apply the considerations of compassion and justice which, as man's enlightenment spreads ... will enter ever more into the decisions that affect his future ... in the universe?” MenMeanAbleUniverseGoalJusticeDecisionBusinessCompassionDoubtEnlightenmentMachinesDetermineSpreadConsiderationAvenues Author:Lewis Strauss
“My kingdom is as wide as the universe and my wants have no limits. I go forward always, freeing spirits and weighing words, without fear, without compassion, without love, without God. I am called science.” WantSpiritUniverseCompassionLimitsWideKingdomsWithout LoveWithout GodWeighing Author:Gustave Flaubert
“Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?” KnowsShowsUniverseCompassionSeaPersonalityHolyCrueltyHoney Book:On the Road Source: On the Road
“What interests me is love, sex, death, cruelty, compassion and the desire for meaning in an apparently godless universe. In other words the human condition.” HumansDesireUniverseSexInterestCompassionConditionsCrueltyHuman Condition Author:Glen Duncan
“God is the evolutionary impulse of the universe. God is infinite creativity, infinite love, infinite compassion, infinite caring.” UniverseCompassionCreativityInfiniteCaringImpulseInfinite Love Author:Deepak Chopra
“I don’t have a definition of God, because I’ve never really understood that word. People have different understandings of it and it’s caused a great deal of conflict. If I had to say what would my definition of God be, if I were going to use that word, I would say that this universe has layers upon layers upon layers of compassion and wisdom beyond ours.” PeopleIfsDifferentUseUniverseUnderstandingDealsCompassionConflictUnderstoodDefinitionsLayers Author:Gary Zukav
“When we suddenly awake to the realization that there is no barrier, and never has been, one realizes that one is all things mountains, rivers, grasses, trees, sun, moon, stars, universe are all oneself. There is no longer a division or barrier between myself and others, no longer any feeling of alienation or fear there is nothing apart from oneself and therefore nothing to fear. Realizing this results in true compassion. Other people and things are not seen as apart from oneself but, on the contrary, as one's own body.” PeopleHas BeensFeelingsBodyUniverseStarsRealizingResultsCompassionSunTreeMoonMountainAll ThingsRiversOneselfContraryRealizationGrassAwakeBarriersDivisionAlienationSun Moon Author:Bruce Lee
“We are behaving like people without compassion and love for the most vulnerable section of society. The children of the universe are without a spokesperson, they are voiceless...We are all touched by the atrocities committed against children: sexual, physical abuse, child slave labor, educational neglect. We feel ashamed. Angry. Appalled. But there is no action...No action.” PeopleLoveFeelsChildrenActionUniverseCompassionLaborAnd LoveAbuseAngrySlaveCommittedEducationalVulnerableAshamedTouchedNeglectSectionsAtrocitiesVoicelessPhysical AbuseSlave LaborAtrocities Committed Author:Michael Jackson