Cameron Dokey Quotes

How wise must one be to be always kind.

I'm sensitive to how people are feeling if they feel like they got it wrong, and sensitive to the people who are kind of gloating that they knew all along, they figured it out. I'm loving them through this process, because I know that it took me a while once I found out that it was me.

I would say I'm humanly engaged.

Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.

As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.

People who are mean or unkind or rigid - think about it - cannot laugh at themselves.

I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'

I wonder why people are so hateful sometimes. I just don't get it.

It's harder to be kind than clever

Consider that we shouldn't call our brother a fool, since we don't know ourselves what we are.

One must first learn to heal people to be great. To hurt people is easy.

He that pitties another, remembers himselfe.

We like to pretend that our generous impulses come naturally. But the reality is we often become our kindest, most ethical selves only by seeing what it feels like to be a selfish jackass first. It's the reason... we have to get burned before we understand the power of fire; the reason our most meaningful relationships are so often those that continued beyond the very juncture at which they came the closest to ending.

...to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness.

We must quit thinking we know everything, and quit placing "knowledge" over kindness and compassion.

Compassion is the ultimate expression of your highest self

Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a man all wrapped up in himself.

It's always better to be kind. I'm glad I know why." -Wanda

We shall hurt others less. Isn't it, after all, what you always wanted?

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

Loving-kindness and compassion are the basis for wise, powerful, sometimes gentle, and sometimes fierce actions that can really make a difference - in our own lives and those of others.

Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?

Compassion is one of the highest states of consciousness that you can choose to assist you in times of enormous pain.

The nectar of compassion is so wonderful. If you are committed to keeping it alive, then you are protected. What the other person says will not touch off the anger and irritation in you, because compassion is the real antidote to anger. Nothing can heal anger except compassion. That is why the practice of compassion is a very wonderful practice.

I take the greatest lesson from compassion - it takes away all the conceit out of my life.