Richard Carlson Quotes

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.

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being.

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.

What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.

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

When you have enough understanding and compassion in you, then that amount of understanding and compassion will try to express itself in action. And your practice should help you to cultivate more understanding and compassion.

True contentment comes with empathy.

I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'

In my view, the best of humanity is in our exercise of empathy and compassion. It's when we challenge ourselves to walk in the shoes of someone whose pain or plight might seem so different than yours that it's almost incomprehensible.

Compassion takes imagination.

Compassion is the ultimate expression of your highest self

Compassion is the wish to see others free from suffering.

The ability to understand the cause of your own suffering gives you the ability to understand ours.

As human beings we're so cynical, so uncompassionate.

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

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

Love and compassion don't at all have to make us weak, or lead us to losing discernment and vision. We just have to learn how to find them. And see, in truth, what they bring us.

True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.

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 doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.

There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.

Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created.