Quotations Search Results
We found 355 matching quotes
Paul Woodruff, Reverence
And so I realized with shock and delight that reverence could — in theory, at least — be shared across religions. In fact, what religious people today admire in other religions cannot be faith (since they reject most of the content of other faiths) but reverence. So they know about reverence, though they don't know to call it by that name.
Reverence could be shared across religions
Norman Fischer, Taking Our Places
In classical Buddhism there is a wonderful practice for cultivating the nurturing heart called sympathetic joy: imagine that the success or benefit that someone else is enjoying is also your own success or benefit. When someone wins, even if they have defeated you in the process, rather than saying, "What about me?" you train yourself to say, "How wonderful; this joy is mine also." Look for opportunities to replace your habitual way of thinking with the discipline of thinking in this new way.
Sympathetic joy
Michael Berg, The Secret
The spark of the Creator is already within you. You just need to fan that flame through positive actions of sharing.
The spark of the Creator is already within you
Sobonfu Some, Frederic Brussat's Twitter Collection
Intimacy in general terms is a song of spirit inviting two people to share their spirit together.
Intimacy is a song of spirit
Master Hsing Yun, Frederic Brussat's Twitter Collection
Generosity begins with our recognition of our debt to others.
Generosity begins with recognition
Peter Rhodes, Observing Spirit
Even though I have ornaments in my own pond and like them, I dislike other people's lawn ornaments. But now, because I am in the Work [the Gurdjieff method], when I drive by other people's yards, I try to put my dislike aside and think of what affection was active in the person who put the lawn ornaments there. What is it that they are trying to share? They obviously like the ornaments and are trying to share that love with me. If I am busy disliking the ornaments, I can't appreciate what the person is trying to share with me . . .
Our subjective orientation is both personal and cultural or social. On the personal side are selfish loves and a self-serving point of view. Selfish loves stand between our experience of things as they are and our likes and dislikes. A thick cloud of selfish love and love of the world often hangs between us and other people.
Subjective orientation both personal and cultural
Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ
Buddhists and Christians alike, in dialogue, want to recognize similarities as well as differences in their traditions. It is good that an orange is an orange and a mango is a mango. The colors, the smells, and the tastes are different, but looking deeply, we see that they are both authentic fruits. Looking more deeply, we can see the sunshine, the rain, the minerals, and the earth in both of them. Only their manifestations are different.
Buddhists and Christians want to recognize similarities
Martine Batchelor, Let Go
In order to rejoice at the happiness of others and share it with them, the Buddha suggested to practice the following phrases toward others: "May your happiness not leave you, may your good fortune not diminish, may your joy continue." When people practice with these phrases, over time it helps them to recognize and be grateful for their own happiness, good fortune, and joy; it also contributes to them rejoicing at the happiness of others.
In order to rejoice at the happiness of others
Robert Sardello, Love and the World
Seeing the world as friend is like seeing the world for the first time. Such a seeing is actually a metaphysical sharing of one's being with the beloved other, as the other shares her being with us.
Seeing the world as friend
Jean Shinoda Bolen, Close to the Bone
I don't remember exactly when it dawned on me that nothing in my life goes to waste, that anything that has ever affected me deeply might someday be an empathic connection to what someone is telling me. It was more than an insight; it meant that there was meaning in my own suffering, that anything that I have lived through might someday be redeemed if it enables me to help someone else.
Nothing in my life goes to waste