Short Quotes on Love and
Compassion
- When
we
come into contact with the other person, our
thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if
that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We
practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not
contingent upon the other person being lovable.
- We really have to understand the person we want
to
love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only
think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs
of the other person, we cannot love.
- People
deal too much with the negative, with what is
wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things
and make them bloom?
- In true dialogue, both sides are willing to
change.
- Training is needed in order to
love properly; and to be able to give
happiness and joy, you must practice DEEP LOOKING directed toward the
other person you love. Because if you do not understand this person,
you cannot love properly. Understanding is the essence of love. If you
cannot understand, you cannot love. That is the message of the Buddha.
[True Love. A Practice for Awakening the Heart.]
- So
if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By
listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of
another person. [True Love. A Practice for Awakening the
Heart.]
- Love is the capacity to take care, to
protect, to nourish. If you are
not capable of generating that kind of energy toward yourself- if you
are not capable of taking care of yourself, of nourishing yourself, of
protecting yourself- it is very difficult to take care of another
person. In the Buddhist teaching, it's clear that to love oneself is
the foundation of the love of other people. Love is a practice. Love is
truely a practice. [Shambhala Sun March 2006 ]
- The
essence of love and compassion is understanding, the ability
to recognize the physical, material, and psychological suffering of
others, to put ourselves "inside the skin" of the other. We
"go
inside" their body, feelings, and mental formations, and witness for
ourselves their suffering. Shallow observation as an outsider
is
not enough to see their suffering. We must become one with
the
subject of our observation. When we are in contact with
another's
suffering, a feeling of compassion is born in us. Compassion
means, literally, "to suffer with."
- See also quotes on unselfish love and
Buddhist quotes on love,
attachment, compassion and relationships