Organizations are made up of people joined together in a common purpose. To effectively lead we must become "people experts." To become people experts, we must understand suffering. The voices of compassion showcased on this page can help us find our way to that understanding. | | | | | | | | |
| Compassion is the heart’s response to suffering.
Compassion — from the roots passio (suffering)
and com (with) — means to suffer with another.
Compassion is an innate part of human response to suffering,
which is comprised of a three-part experience of
noticing another’s pain, feeling with another,
and responding in some way. | | — from the CompassionLab | | | | Because of the media, the way the world is perceived is as a place where resources and time are running out. We’re taught that you have to grab what you can before it’s gone. It’s almost as if there isn’t time for compassion. | | — George Michael | | | | Compassion does not focus on the suffering that beings are undergoing, but on the beings undergoing that suffering. | | — Ogyen Trinley Dorje | | | | Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation. | | — Henry Ward Beecher | | | | There is no known defense against relentless • Quotations > Quotes on Compassion
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Compassion is a human emotion prompted by the pain of others. More vigorous than empathy, the feeling commonly gives rise to an active desire to alleviate another's suffering. It is often, though not inevitably, the key component in what manifests in the social context as altruism. Wikipedia.org/wiki/Compassion
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=== Abraham J. Heschel
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.” Abraham J. Heschel quotes (Jewish theologian and philosopher, 1907-1972) Albert Einstein | | "A human being is part of the whole called by us ‘universe' - a part limited in time and space. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
Albert Einstein Our task must be to free ourselves . . .by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. Albert Einstein  • compassion | If you long for others dealings be happy,
practice compassion. If order around want
earn be joyous, practice compassion.
the Dalai Lama |
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Joan Chittister
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Gary Zukav
When you recovered out record this cosmos, remember: heart, compassion, compassion.
Betty
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