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Thu 1 Apr 2021

Compassion

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Random quote of the day:

“The heart opens and closes, and there may be times, very sensibly, when you need to back off and protect yourself…You have to include yourself in compassion, not just everybody else.” 

—Jack Kornfeld, The Lion’s Roar, October 15, 2017

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Mon 15 Jul 2019

Compassion

Posted by PJ under compassion, quote of the day, the self
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Random quote of the day:

“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.”

—Jack Kornfield, Buddha’s Little Instruction Book

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Fri 19 Feb 2016

Value added

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“One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.”

—Simone de Beauvoir, quoted in Successful Aging: A Conference Report by Eric Pfeiffer

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Thu 26 Feb 2015

Selfish compassion

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“In this society, we view compassion as a favor, something along the lines of forgiveness extended to the humble and deserving. No. My compassion is utterly selfish, and is rooted in a craving for power. It is compelled by my curiosity, itself, just another name for hunger, for desire, for want of the great power of knowing. It is not enough for me to sit around scoring morality points on dead people, all the while blind to the living morality of this troubled time. There’s no power in that. I need to know more.”

―Ta-Nehisi Coates, “Compassion,” TheAtlantic.com, Sept. 17, 2010

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Thu 23 Jan 2014

The seven ages of man

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“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all of these.

—George Washington Carver, George Washington Carver: In His Own Words, ed. Gary R. Kremer

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Wed 22 Jan 2014

Humanizing

Posted by PJ under being human, compassion, imagination, morality, quote of the day
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“Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality.”

—Ian McEwan, “Only Love and Then Oblivion,” The Guardian, Sept. 15, 2001 

This is a beautifully written short piece. You can read the full essay here.

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Tue 20 Aug 2013

Do unto others

Posted by PJ under compassion, enemies, quote of the day, tolerance
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Random quote of the day:

“It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.”

—Dalai Lama, Ocean of Wisdom: Guidelines for Living

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Tue 15 May 2012

Dark to light

Posted by PJ under compassion, contradictions, darkness, growing up, light, morality, quote of the day, what the living do
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“How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one’s culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.”

—Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams

 

 


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