When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways--either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.
The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.
If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives. I’m not talking about the short-term gratification of pleasures like sex, drugs or gambling (though I’m not knocking them), but something that will bring true and lasting happiness. The kind that sticks.
Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you.
All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their own happiness or satisfaction.