Quotes About Compassion

Directives

"Develop character by developing patience, forbearance, restraint, objectivity, compassion, the ability to observe others and the ability to have your life be undefined."

• Living the Way of Knowledge, chap. 3, p. 21

"Instead of being concerned about hurting another, be concerned about being honest and compassionate. If you are being honest and compassionate, then everything you do will be beneficial."

• Relationships & Higher Purpose, chap. 14, p. 172

"...have compassion for the world. Healing must happen in life, but it is not the kind of healing that people often think of. "

• Wisdom I, chp 31

Short Quotes

"Whatever you have done to hurt yourself or others is now brought to develop Wisdom, compassion and discernment."

• Living the Way of Knowledge, chap. 2, p. 13

"Your employment is a perfect environment to teach you discernment, discretion, insight, compassion, ability and restraint."

• Living the Way of Knowledge, chap. 5, p. 41

"[These] virtues ... emanate from Knowledge--devotion, compassion, wisdom, strength, perseverance, courage and patience."

• Living the Way of Knowledge, chap.11, p. 137

"Compassion is observing yourself without judgment, aligning yourself with the truth to the extent that you can experience it, being a direct participant in life, choosing what is true over what seems comfortable or accommodating to others and seeking truth over advantage."

• Wisdom II, chp 18

Long Quotes

"Whether humanity’s united society is a society of Wisdom, compassion and understanding that can tolerate diversity or whether it is an oppressive society with a cruel and harsh dictatorship that values control beyond all things, the outcome is up to you and up to others along with you."

• Living the Way of Knowledge, chap. 11, p. 125

"You will be tempted to condemn the false. You will be tempted to throw the false away. You may be brutal and angry with yourself. You may be critical and judgmental of others. Yet you learn ... that what is small can represent what is great. You learn that what is false in all of its manifestations represents the need for Knowledge. This encourages acceptance, forgiveness and compassion. Then you can begin to accept all aspects of yourself and learn to have a sense of a working relationship between them. This leads to self-integration, self-acceptance and, therefore, self-love."

• Relationships & Higher Purpose, chap. 9, p. 84