Marcus Aurelius Quotes

For a practitioner of love and compassion, an enemy is one of the most important teachers. Without an enemy you cannot practice tolerance, and without tolerance you cannot build a sound basis of compassion.

Explore your web: the needs, the beliefs, and the emotions that are controlling you so there's more of you to give and so you can appreciate what's driving other people. It's the only way our world's going to change.

Everyone loses touch with their aspiration, and we need the heart to return to what we really care about. All of this is based on developing greater lovingkindness and compassion.

The problem is not what other people think, do or say; it is your reaction.

Love must be learned again and again... Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.

Unless and until you have developed a heart inundated with compassion, do not sit on the seat of judgement.

I don't recognize hate, I don't recognize bitterness, I don't recognize jealousy, I don't recognize greed. I don't give them power. They don't exist to me.

The more that we self-analyze ourselves, the nicer we are to people and to ourselves, and the more we understand each other.

Believe the best about people. Pray for their short comings. You are not the standard. We all need grace.

Even when people act nastily to you, don't condemn them or retaliate.

I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.

Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others

Judging others blocks me from inner peace

Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All of these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill... I can neither be harmed by any of them, for no man will involve me in wrong, nor can I be angry with my kinsman or hate him; for we have come into the world to work together.

The more you look into and understand yourself, the less judgmental you become towards others.

The more time we spend considering the shortcomings of others, the smaller a person we become.

There would be very little to dislike in other people if we refused to bring to them all of our own judgements and petty grievances.

Be inspired to ignore their ignorant message, and feel gratitude in your heart that you are not burdened or addicted to hate, as they are.

I'm doing my best to be mindful about how I'm living: to be kind and patient, and not to impose a bad mood on somebody else. Being mindful is as good a way to be spiritual as anything else.

That's the way I try to live. I think it's the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

You have to find the peace and patience within yourself to be a model and an example to others and not judge.

A spiritual person is also in touch with his or her own reality, feelings and thoughts, and the reality of the people around him or her, not projecting on them.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

When you practice Buddhism, you have to always self-reflect, and you can't avoid your problems. That makes me understand human beings better. I feel that the more I do that in my own life, the more I can see how to play a character.