Quotes about Compassion

Whenever somebody reaches above their own limitations - I always tell people, the best time to go give is when you have nothing.

The best time to stop a fight is before it starts. The best vitamin for developing friends is B1. The best way to destroy an enemy in to make him a friend.

Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.

The way of the miracle-worker is to see all human behavior as one two things: either love, or a call for love.

In the Holy Relationship, it's understood that we all have unhealed places, and that healing is the purpose of our being with another person. We don't hide our weaknesses, but rather we understand that the relationship is a context for healing through mutual forgiveness.

The only thing missing in any situation is that in which you are not giving

People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.

Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life.

You are loved, and your purpose is to love.

There is, inside all our heads, the ego's rabid attack dog. It is purely vicious toward others and toward ourselves as well. Learning to control that dog, and ultimately to end its life, is the process and purpose of enlightened relationships.

God gives us His strength by giving us His vision of things. Our seeing people as innocent is the only way to achieve God's peace.

That's the greatest miracle, and ultimately the only one: that you awaken from the dream of separation and become a different kind of person. People are constantly concerning themselves with what they do: have I achieved enough, written the greatest screenplay, formed the most powerful company? But the world will not be saved by another great novel, great movie, or great business venture. It will only be saved by the appearance of great people.