Stephen Levine Quotes about Compassion

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When your fear touches someone's pain it becomes pity; when your love touches someone's pain, it becomes compassion. To train in compassion, then, is to know all beings are the same and suffer in similar ways, to honor

When your fear touches someone's pain it becomes pity; when your love touches someone's pain, it becomes compassion. To train in compassion, then, is to know all beings are the same and suffer in similar ways, to honor all those who suffer, and to know you are neither separate from nor superior to anyone.

Stephen Levine

Inspirational, Pain, Compassion

When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.

Stephen Levine

Pain, Grief, Compassion

Healing comes when we meet our wounded places with compassion.

Stephen Levine

Healing, Compassion, Wounded

That which is impermanent attracts compassion. That which is not provides wisdom. (116)

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Compassion

It is not for the concept, but for the experience, that we use the term the Beloved. The experience of this enormity we falteringly label divine is unconditioned love. Absolute openness, unbounded mercy and compassion. We use this concept, not to name the unnameable vastness of being-- our greatest joy-- but to acknowledge and claim as our birthright the wonders and healings within.

Stephen Levine

Healing, Compassion, Names

Stephen Levine, Ondrea Levine (2010). “Embracing the Beloved: Relationship as a Path of Awakening”, p.7, Anchor

Gratitude is the state of mind of thankfulness. As it is cultivated, we experience an increase in our "sympathetic joy," our happiness at another's happiness. Just as in the cultivation of compassion, we may feel the pain of others, so we may begin to feel their joy as well. And it doesn't stop there.

Stephen Levine

Gratitude, Pain, Compassion

Stephen Levine (2009). “A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last”, p.109, Harmony