"Compassion should be unbiased and based on..." - Quote by Dalai Lama
Compassion should be unbiased and based on the recognition that others have the right to happiness, just like you.
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“To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else. Rather than speaking badly about people and in ways that will produce friction and unrest in their lives, we should practice a purer perception of them, and when we speak of others, speak of their good qualities.”
“Love is wanting others to be happy.”
“Contemplating the suffering which is unbearable to us, and is unbearable to others, too, can produce awake mind, which arises from the compassion that wishes to free all living beings from suffering.”
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“My brave fellows, let no sensation of satisfaction for the triumphs you have gained induce you to insult your fallen enemy. Let no shouting, no clamorous huzzaing increase their mortification. It is sufficient for us that we witness their humiliation. Posterity will huzza for us.”
“All people are endowed with the faculty of compassion, and for this reason can develop the humanitarian spirit.”
“A teetotaler would regard it as his duty to associate with his drunkard brother for the purpose of weaning him from the evil habit.”