Pema Chodron quote – Our kinship with all beings

“True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings.” – Pema Chodron
Read more“True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings.” – Pema Chodron
Read more“Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have bought it or baked it or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a […]
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Read more“I think it’s helpful to remind white ethnics that they, too, came here in boats; that they, too, lived in slums; that they, too, had yellow fever; that they, too, were stigmatized as incorrigible; that they, too, had the highest homicide rates and the highest incarceration rates and the highest rates of mental illness; and that everything that was said […]
Read more“Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.” – Linda Blandford
Read more“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away”
Read more“We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.’ – Cynthia Ozick
Read more“Everywhere, we learn only from those we love.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goetlfe
Read more“A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in…and how many want out.” – Tony Blair
Read more“Do not be afraid to be holy! Have the courage and humility to present yourselves to the world determined to be holy, since lull, true freedom is born from holiness.” – Pope Francis
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