Tara Brach Quotes

Sympathy does not think. It acts. It acts to remove. The ceaseless sufferings. Of the world

To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

Character is revealed in the power to discern the suffering of other people when we ourselves are suffering; in the ability to detect the hunger of others when we are hungry; and in the power to reach out and extend compassion for the spiritual agony of others when we are in the midst of our own spiritual distress.

There is so much indifference in the face of suffering. May we overcome indifference with concrete acts of charity.

Compassion is a mind that removes the suffering that is present in the other.

By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.

Compassion allows us to bear witness to suffering, whether it is in ourselves or others, without fear; it allows us to name injustice without hesitation, to act strongly, with all the skill at our disposal.

Compassion is a living, breathing, organic emotion that vibrates through you and links you to those around you.

I cannot worry much about your sins and miseries when I have so many of my own. I can only love you all, poor fellow travellers, fellow sufferers. I do not want to add one least straw to the burden you already carry.

The source of love is deep in us and we can help others realize a lot of happiness. One word, one action, one thought can reduce another person’s suffering and bring that person joy.

Compassion is the feeling of shared suffering. When you feel someone else's suffering, there is the birth of understanding.

People may excite in themselves a glow of compassion, not by toasting their feet at the fire, and saying: "Lord, teach me compassion," but by going and seeking an object that requires compassion.

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.

I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child.

Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.

I say let's respond as best we can to the victims and their families.

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

When you are in the midst of suffering you are looking for someone to be Jesus to you. You are looking for someone to love you and help take care of you, and reach out to you.

When compassion wakes up in us, we find ourselves more willing to become vulnerable, to take the risk of entering the pain of others.

When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more.

No one should be left to suffer alone.

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.