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"Loving kindness is the practice of offering to oneself and others wishes to be happy, peaceful, healthy, strong."
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"If you despise your people, you will disregard them. If you hate your people, you will harm them. If you esteem your people, you will serve them. If you love your people, you will even die for them."
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"So bring me this man, trembling and shivering from head to foot; let me fall into his arms or down at his knees; he will weep and we shall weep, he will be eloquent and I shall be comforted, and my heart shall melt into his, he will take my soul, and I his God.But what is this kindly old gentleman to me? And what am I to him? Just one more member of the race of unfortunates, one more shade to go with the many he has seen, one more figure to add to his total of executions."
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"He held out a shaky and worn hand and she met it with one of her young and inexperienced ones."
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"We have to help the one who has fallen, we should not question 'why did you fall?"
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"Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one."
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"He sometimes wondered if she had become involved with him just so that she could cry in someone's arms. Maybe she can't cry alone, and that's why she needs me."
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"To minimize hatred and oppression, our love roots must be deep and solid."
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"Nowhere in the bible did it say, "Only show compassion and empathy to those you can trust." If we did that, we would be burying homeless people every day."
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"An open heart has greater power than a clenched fist."
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"When you learn to kill animals, you are unconsciously teaching cruelty to other creations."
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"When we believe a wounding story, our whole world is diminished."
Belief

"A relationship is the union of two psychological systems."
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"Everyone we interact with has the capacity to surprise us in an infinite number of ways. What can first open us up to each of our innate capacities for love is merely to recognize that."
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"The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness."
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"Being happy at work is possible for all of us, anytime & anywhere, with open eyes and a caring heart."
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"We are all too often told by someone that we are too old, too young, too different, too much the same, and those comments can be devastating."
Identity

"To celebrate someone else's life, we need to find a way to look at it straight on, not from above with judgment or from below with envy."
Life

"Like water poured from one vessel to another, metta flows freely, taking the shape of each situation without changing its essence."
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"Any time we find ourselves relying on the ideas of an absolute, frozen state of right and wrong-or fairness versus unfairness-that we are used to, we can compare the habit to distraction during meditation."
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"Paying attention to the ethical implications of our choices has never been more pressing-or more complicated-than it is today."
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