What Is Compassion, Really, and How Can We Truly Practice It?
“If we long to be in the world who God is, then, somehow, our compassion has to find its way to vastness.”
“If we long to be in the world who God is, then, somehow, our compassion has to find its way to vastness.”
“Discovering our identity comes first with uprooting everything we’ve ever known about who we are.”
“It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.”
“And even if what you want to accomplish in the world were the most amazing feat: you shall acknowledge the lily and the bird as your teachers…”
“The happy life is this – to rejoice to you, in you, and for you. That is it and there is no other.”
“What I am asking for is really very ridiculous. Oh Lord, I am saying, at present I am cheese, make me a mystic, immediately. But then God can do that – make mystics out of cheeses.”
“My friends, all I’m trying to say is that if we are to go forward today, we’ve got to go back and rediscover some mighty precious values that we’ve left behind.”