"When your fear touches someone's pain it becomes pity; when your love touches someone's pain, it becomes compassion. To train in compassion, then, is to know all beings are the same and suffer in similar ways, to honor all those who suffer, and to know you are neither separate from nor superior to anyone."

-- Stephen Levine

#Inspirational Quotes #Pain Quotes #Compassion Quotes

“Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.”
“I have Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. It has crippled my body and speech, but not my mind.”
“The world was large, so large. Bigger than it had been before. Family, too, a bigger word. That felt like a good thing. An essential thing. There was power in numbers.”
“I also think there's something about dance, music and the arts that transcends all other types of communication and expression.”
“Books make great gifts because they expand your horizons and keep you cooking.”
“If you wish, you may call me Rand Sedai.”
“Again, it occurred to me how weird it was to be permanent in a place that to everyone else was only temporary. Like I could never be sure if they were the ones who weren't real, or if I was.”
“Meditation is really quite simple. All we have to do is embrace each experience with awareness and open our hearts fully to the present moment. When we are completely at ease with our own being, the ripples of awareness naturally spread out in all directions, touching the lives of everyone we meet.”

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