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The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater read more
The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands.
Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is read more
Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which read more
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.
A state has the right to prohibit the killing
of dogs and bears whether for film or for other purposes.
A state has the right to prohibit the killing
of dogs and bears whether for film or for other purposes.
Not to hurt our humble brethren in fur, feather or fin, is our first duty to them, but to stop read more
Not to hurt our humble brethren in fur, feather or fin, is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission: to be of service to them whenever they require it.
Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle
of compassion to embrace all read more
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.
the train rolls by the cows
grazing in the meadows
.. and they hear the moos
the frightened cries
of read more
the train rolls by the cows
grazing in the meadows
.. and they hear the moos
the frightened cries
of their fellows
captive in the cars.
The dew of compassion is a tear.
The dew of compassion is a tear.
It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.
It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.
