Tara Stiles Quotes

One day I was sitting in my own pain, and suddenly all the pain and troubles of the world came to me. I received all the pain of the world, all through my body.

Human beings are members of a whole, In creation of one essence and soul. If one member is afflicted with pain, Other members uneasy will remain. If you have no sympathy for human pain, The name of human you cannot retain.

I believe we are all connected to other people. I am connected to people who are suffering. We all are.

I believe in the power of one and that we are all bound by the thread of oneness and humanity.

Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled but halved. No man is an island

As we work to reweave the strands of connection, we can be supported by the wisdom and lovingkindness of others.

I believe that dialogue is the key to breaking through our tendency to separate and isolate. Dialogue changes isolation and loneliness into connection and interdependence. This, I believe, is the essence of Buddhism.

All of us are much more human than otherwise.

There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

When we have nothing to cling to as our own and cease thinking of ourselves as people who must defend privileges, we can open ourselves freely to others with the faithful expectation that our strength will manifest itself in our shared weakness.

I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.

When he is pierced, I bleed.

we all need each other, none of us is an island, an autonomous and independent "I," separated from the other, and we can only build the future by standing together, including everyone. We don’t think about it often, but everything is connected, and we need to restore our connections to a healthy state. Even the harsh judgment I hold in my heart against my brother or my sister, the open wound that was never cured, the offense that was never forgiven, the rancor that is only going to hurt me, are all instances of a fight that I carry within me, a flare deep in my heart that needs to be extinguished before it goes up in flames, leaving only ashes behind.

It's easy when you have suffered to feel the link with what others have gone through.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

In this world, and all the things we have going on, we're all human beings.

I believe in a kind of literature which makes clear that, at a deeper level, below the surface, we are tied together through invisible but existing threads. A kind of literature which talks about a lively, ever-changing world of unity, of which we are a small, but not insignificant part.

Each of us is living our own private journey, and the more we know about each other, the healthier and happier the world will be.

In the face of the oppressed I recognize my own face, and in the hands of the oppressor I recognize my own hands. Their flesh is my flesh, their blood is my blood, their pain is my pain, their smile is my smile.

We become compassionate not from altruism which denies the self for the sake of the other, but from the insight that sees and feels one is the other.