#compassion

Just as no bodily pleasure at all can gladden the mind of one whose body is engulfed in flames, so too those full of

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 Just as no bodily pleasure at all can gladden the mind of one whose body is engulfed in flames, so too those full of

Feb 11,2024

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#quotes #philosophy #suffering #joy #buddhism #compassion #pleasure #Śāntideva #Bodhicaryāvatāra

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think,

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 Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think,

Nov 17,2023

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#quotes #pain #philosophy #suffering #empathy #Fyodor Dostoyevsky #sympathy #compassion #intelligence #crime and punishment

My soul does everything it can to repair the irreparable.

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 My soul does everything it can to repair the irreparable.

May 06,2023

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#love #quotes #soul #compassion #Cixous #Hélène Cixous #Love Itself: In the Letter Box

My friend, to love people as they are is impossible. And yet one must. And therefore do good to them, clenching your feelings,...

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 My friend, to love people as they are is impossible. And yet one must. And therefore do good to them, clenching your feelings,...

Feb 25,2023

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#love #quotes #philosophy #awareness #humanity #Fyodor Dostoyevsky #compassion #The Adolescent

Compassion was the most important, perhaps the sole law of human existence.

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 Compassion was the most important, perhaps the sole law of human existence.

Feb 03,2023

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#quotes #philosophy #empathy #awareness #Fyodor Dostoyevsky #the idiot #compassion

Surrender yourself humbly; then you can be trusted to care for all things. Love the world as your own self; then you can

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 Surrender yourself humbly; then you can be trusted to care for all things. Love the world as your own self; then you can

Dec 18,2022

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#love #quotes #care #philosophy #compassion #humility #Laozi #Daodejing #daoism #nonself

In order to allay my own suffering and to allay the suffering of others, I devote myself to others and accept them as myself.

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 In order to allay my own suffering and to allay the suffering of others, I devote myself to others and accept them as myself.

Feb 17,2022

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#quotes #philosophy #self #suffering #empathy #buddhism #misery #compassion #Śāntideva #Bodhicaryāvatāra #nonself

I must acquire many virtues, both for myself and for others. The discipline of a single one of those virtues might not

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 I must acquire many virtues, both for myself and for others. The discipline of a single one of those virtues might not

Dec 19,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #buddhism #ethics #virtue #compassion #Śāntideva #Bodhicaryāvatāra

When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.

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 When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.

Nov 28,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #self #suffering #empathy #humanity #Seneca #compassion #others #Hercules Furens

Superiority? Inferiority? Why not simply try to touch the other, feel the other, discover each other? … At the end of this

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 Superiority? Inferiority? Why not simply try to touch the other, feel the other, discover each other? … At the end of this

Nov 11,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #empathy #humanity #sympathy #compassion #Frantz Fanon #Black Skin White Masks

It is reason that engenders self-love, and reflection that strengthens it; it is reason that makes man shrink into himself;

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 It is reason that engenders self-love, and reflection that strengthens it; it is reason that makes man shrink into himself;

Apr 30,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #empathy #reason #reflection #sympathy #danger #Jean Jacques Rousseau #compassion #Discourse on Inequality #connection

When people injure you, ask yourself what good or harm they thought would come of it. If you understand that, you’ll

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 When people injure you, ask yourself what good or harm they thought would come of it. If you understand that, you’ll

Nov 20,2020

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#quotes #philosophy #empathy #morality #ethics #virtue #sympathy #Marcus Aurelius #Meditations #anger #compassion