Henepola Gunaratana Quotes

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

Without loving-kindness for ourselves, it is difficult, if not impossible, to genuinely feel it for others.

Personally, I think humility is a prerequisite to being a truly empathic person.

I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'

The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion - towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

True contentment comes with empathy.

Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me... I still love them, I still give them chances, and I still see the best in them. Let me extend that generosity to myself.

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

How shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves?

Loving kindness is the spirit of friendship toward yourself and others.

The key point is kindness. With kindness one will have inner peace. Through inner peace, world peace can one day be a reality.

Only if you're kind to yourself, can you be kind to others.

Be kind to others, so that you may learn the secret art of being kind to yourself.

Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

Why does God endow us with compassion?

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

Compassion is contempt with a human face.

I think compassion is an important quality in people in general.

Compassion is so pure, I don't think there is any way to taint it.