compassion

I say, __e believe in a Christ_. If that being existed physically or not, it__ still important, because the message was so basic and sensible and powerful, that we should live by those truths. Love, compassion, generosity. God doesn__ punish anyone. Churches aren__ needed. Money in connection to belief is an abomination. They say, __h_. Then they quote the Old Testament.

No animals needs to die in order for me to live. And that makes me feel good.

In the present moment we can always realize that the ground is to develop loving-kindness toward ourselves. As adults, we can begin to cultivate a sense of loving-kindness for ourselves__y ourselves, for ourselves. The whole process of meditation is one of creating that good ground, that cradle of loving-kindness where we actually are nurtured. What__ being nurtured is our confidence in our own wisdom, our own health, and our own courage, our own goodheartedness. We develop some sense that the way we are__he kind of personality that we have and the way we express life__s good, and that by being who we are completely and by totally accepting that and having respect for ourselves, we are standing on the ground of warriorship. " Pema Chodron, Awakening Loving-Kindness, pages 144_145

A truly evolved society is one which is measured by how well it treats the least of its members.

emotion untempered by reason is social suicide

Just because it had happened before didn__ mean it wasn__ serious. It didn__ mean he didn__ need them.

Humanity need not be taught in schools, it is a gift and skill one should master.

All we have is compassion and stories.

Make choices in life that don't leave people bitter, worse off or confused. Any choice that leads you to do this is a choice that didn't include God in the decision making process.

People eat meat and think they will become strong as an ox, forgetting that the ox eats grass.

We find it difficult to distinguish between spiritual combatants_ and their hostages.

The pleasure or the benefit that the object of our deed derives from it is every now and then greater or even more important than the one we derive from the deed.

I replay the scene again and again, the broken mashed-up face looming over me, the knowledge between the two of us that I'd done it. That act of kindness is still more unfathomable to me than any cruelty.

Close! stand close to me, Starbuck; let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God. By the green land; by the bright hearthstone! this is the magic glass, man; I see my wife and my child in thine eye. No, no; stay on board, on board!- lower not when I do; when branded Ahab gives chase to Moby Dick. That hazard shall not be thine. No, no! not with the far away home I see in that eye!

He was no stranger to compassion: his heart was open to many good impulses, though his rank often prevented their manifestation.

The fundamental principle of morality which we seek as a necessity for thought is not, however, a matter only of arranging and deepening current views of good and evil, but also of expanding and extending these. A man is really ethical only when he obeys the constraint laid on him to help all life which he is able to succour, and when he goes out of his way to avoid injuring anything living. He does not ask how far this or that life deserves sympathy as valuable in itself, nor how far it is capable of feeling. To him life as such is sacred. He shatters no ice crystal that sparkles in the sun, tears no leaf from its tree, breaks off no flower, and is careful not to crush any insect as he walks. If he works by lamplight on a summer evening, he prefers to keep the window shut and to breathe stifling air, rather than to see insect after insect fall on his table with singed and sinking wings.

This senate was a place where good Representatives went when they died. Thomas Reed

Pain in the body is a clear indication, Something in the energy fields are blocking inner growth.