Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

* What we do to others, we do to ourselves.

Compassion is our deepest nature. It arises from our interconnection with all things.

Compassion is the ultimate expression of your highest self

The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.

If we can cultivate a concern for others, keeping in mind the oneness of humanity, we can build a more compassionate world.

Empathy is forgetting oneself in the joys and sorrows of another, so much so that you actually feel that the joy or sorrow experienced by another is your own joy and sorrow. Empathy involves complete identification with another.

The name 'Reflect It Back' comes from the idea of not only giving back but also seeing yourself in someone else.

Do not do unto others what would not be good for yourself.

I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.

Anything you do to and for another person, you do it to and for yourself

Compassion is our most important practice. Understanding brings compassion. Understanding the suffering that living beings undergo helps liberate the energy of compassion. And with that energy you know what to do.

It's compassion that makes gods of us.

I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.

He who, by causing pain to others, wishes to obtain pleasure for himself, he, entangled in the bonds of hatred, will never be free from hatred.

Pity is a sense of our own misfortunes in those of another man; it is a sort of foresight of the disasters which may befall ourselves. We assist others,, in order that they may assist us on like occasions; so that the services we offer to the unfortunate are in reality so many anticipated kindnesses to ourselves.

Why should my love be powerless to help another?

Be loving, and you will never want for love; be humble, and you will never want for guiding.

I truly believe that compassion provides the basis of human survival.

A second quality of mature sirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.

Compassion instills a sense of calm, inner strength, and a deep confidence and satisfaction

I don't think I should accept other people's suffering because I suffered. Just the opposite, because I suffered I don't want others to suffer.

Whatever it is that you wish to experience more of in your life, be the source of it in the life of another.

Compassion is the wish to see others free from suffering.

Some people think that without that spark of empathy we would do nothing, but that's just flat-out wrong. You could feel compassion for somebody without the spark of empathy.