"What is my religion? Simple. Kindness."
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"To combat hatred directed toward a person, a Buddhist cultivates loving kindness toward that person."
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"Kindness is the key to peace and harmony in family life."
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"The key point is kindness. With kindness one will have inner peace. Through inner peace, world peace can one day be a reality."
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"Just as compassion is the wish that all sentient beings be free of suffering, loving-kindness is the wish that all may enjoy happiness."
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"Meet hostility and suspicion with kindness. Helping others out of love is always the best option."
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"Kindness consents very readily to the removal of its object – we have all met people whose kindness to animals is constantly leading them to kill animals lest they should suffer. Kindness, merely as such, cares not whether its object becomes good or bad, provided only that it escapes suffering."
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"The word 'heart' can refer to an emotional bond between people, and also to the precious faculty of empathy, an 'open heart', which means sharing the feelings of another and includes an outflow of goodwill towards our fellow humans and all life forms. This, of course, is what the Dalai Lama refers to when he says "my religion is kindness", and is closely related to the ability to feel compassion."
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"Honesty without kindness, humor, and goodheartedness can be just mean."
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"Those who love not their fellow-beings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave."
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"If I had to give up my life for anything, it would have to have the resilience of hope, the elation of new literacy, the brilliant life of a field of flowers, the elementary kindness of bread. Nothing short of that. It would have to be something as sure as love."
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"The great chasm between the thing I say, and the thing I would say, would be quite dispiriting to me, in spite even of such kindnesses as yours, if the desire did not master the despondency."
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"Ketut, why is life all crazy like this?" I asked my medicine man the next day...So what can we do about the craziness of the world?" Nothing." Ketut laughed, but with a dose of kindness. "This is nature of world. This is destiny. Worry about your craziness only-make you in peace."
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"How odd that girl's life looks Behind this soft eclipse! I think that earth seems so To those in heaven now. This being comfort, then That other kind was pain; But why compare? I'm wife! stop there!"
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"By Chivalries as tiny, A Blossom, or a Book, The seeds of smiles are planted- Which Blossom in the dark."
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"From the fear and constriction that's sort of always pulling us back and keeping us in old modalities, I feel like any expansive act of kindness, thoughtfulness, and generosity, helps tip the scale toward a more conscious, liberated existence for everyone."
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"Every time you opt in to kindness Make one connection, used to divide us It echoes all over the world"
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"I spent a year pulling all-nighters and driving around in a really tiny fuel-efficient car relying on the kindness of strangers and seeing this incredible range of landscapes throughout the United States. That's what happened with The Honesty Room. It was a huge night and day switch."
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"We are a kind of posterity in respect to them."
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"A kindness is never wasted"
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