"Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way."

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Joan Halifax

#Helping Others Quotes #Compassion Quotes #Way Quotes

“A lot of people... are afraid of pictures which have visible emotions in them. They feel calmer in front of pictures which are placid.”
“In the infinity of life where I am, All is perfect, whole and complete, I no longer choose to believe in old limitations and lack, I now choose to begin to see myself As the Universe sees me --- perfect, whole, and complete.”
“I can't afford a whole new set of enemies.”
“The uncreated and the dead exist solely in our actual and virtual pasts.”
“I planned how I would kill myself in the time of Churchill (stand under bombs), Victoria (throw myself under a horse), and Henry the Eighth (marry Henry the Eighth)- Little Bee”
“The earth with yellow pearsAnd overgrown with roses wildUpon the pond is bent,And swans divine,With kisses drunkYou drop your headsIn the sublimely sobering water.But where, with winter come, am ITo find, alas, the floweres, and whereThe sunshineAnd the shadow of the world?Cold the walls standAnd the wordless, in the windThe weathercocks are rattling.”
“There is no free market in oil.”
“There's a vast difference between having a carload of miscellaneous facts sloshing around loose in your head and getting all mixed up in transit, and carrying the same assortment properly boxed and crated for convenient handling and immediate delivery.”

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