"I hope I would leave a legacy of joy -a legacy of real compassion."
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"Compassion is to share the pain without sharing the suffering."
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"Make the Universal personal and you become richer, wiser and stronger. Make the personal Universal and you will find freedom, compassion and love"
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"Often we treat certain aspects of ourselves as junk, having no value. We try to throw parts of ourselves in the garbage. But a human being is an ecosystem, and everything in that system is of value to the whole."
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"Look upon him who shows you your faults as a revealer of treasure: seek his company who checks and chides you, the sage who is wise in reproof: it fares well and not ill with him who seeks such company."
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"Hardships make us strong. Problems give birth to wisdom. Sorrows cultivate compassion. Those who have suffered the most will become the happiest."
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"Compassion, tolerance, forgiveness and a sense of self-discipline are qualities that help us lead our daily lives with a calm mind"
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"Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings."
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"When you expand your awareness, your energy flows freely. You're more flexible, balanced, and creative. You view yourself and the world with more compassion and understanding. You have more energy and are open to new possibilities."
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"Children learn about the nature of the world from their family. They learn about power and about justice, about peace and about compassion within the family. Whether we oppress or liberate our children in our relationships with them will determine whether they grow up to oppress and be oppressed or to liberate and be liberated."
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"Spirituality is allowing compassion and love to flourish. When belongness begins, corruption ends."
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"Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment."
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"For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh."
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"When your mind is liberated, your heart floods with compassion."
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"The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people."
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"Love is not without its flaws. The stronger the love, the more it tests you. Compassion and empathy will make true love persist."
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"I will offer thanks for someone who paid a price for offering compassion to me. I will place myself beneath the cross of another who needs my compassion."
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"Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food"
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"There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos."
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"Human courtship has some wild extremes. At one end of the spectrum, there is harassment, pestering, blackmail, and an abuse of institutional power, which its targets rightly fear and loathe. At the other end is love, which as Nietzsche said, is beyond good and evil and always deserves our respect and compassion even when it is doomed or destructive. In the wide middle of the spectrum are all the ambiguous and tragi-comic goings-on of our species."
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