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Tag Archives: compassion
A Drop in the Bucket
His Holiness came to visit the Big Easy: a mixed race culture. He spoke to thousands: they lined up for hours to hear his message of peace. His smiling face shone on all those who assembled; what great energy! Practice … Continue reading
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Tagged compassion, Dalai Lama, haiku, irony, New Orleans, poetic forms, poverty
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The Art of Happiness
The question was, “How can I be more compassionate; how can my efforts to be compassionate be more effective?” His answer, politically careful, was that it was an individual question; that each person’s contribution was different, that one’s answer was … Continue reading
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Tagged action, activitism, compassion, Dalai Lama, peace, service, thought
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But It Ain’t
If this were a Christian country by Jehovah’s rules, there’d be much more compassion and glad suffering of fools, less hands out full of gimme with mouths full of much obliged, no clear advantage to the rich, less chance of … Continue reading
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Tagged compassion, denominations, ecumenics, hypocrisy, religion, spirituality, tolerance
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Feast During Famine
When Obiwan Kenobi felt the end of Alderaan it was as if a hole appeared and swallowed, to a man, the lifeforce of each precious soul existing ’til that time and twisted, perhaps frayed, the cord of which we form … Continue reading
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Tagged catastrophes, compassion, disasters, karma, kindness, spirituality, suffering, tsunamis
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Yule Log 2004
The times when goodwill, peace and love are praised are rare indeed; and rarer still those instances when thought translates to deed. So in such seasons where these things are found, take heart, rejoice, and with compassion, grace and honor … Continue reading
Compassion
There are still some strange people in this world who demonstrate compassion for others, based not on a need for recognition or because some reward has been promised; An act of compassion is not a task completed to meet some … Continue reading