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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.

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For Dawkins, atheism is a necessary consequence of evolution. He has argued that the religious impulse is simply an evolutionary mistake, a ‘misfiring...more

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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's ...more

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We are absolutely right to condemn the suicide bomber's targeting of innocent civilians and mourn his victims. But as we have seen, in war the state a...more

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We routinely and rightly condemn the terrorism that kills civilians in the name of God but we cannot claim the high moral ground if we dismiss the suf...more

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The new atheists show a disturbing lack of understanding of or concern about the complexity and ambiguity of modern experience, and their polemic enti...more

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In the tenth century BC, the priests of India devised the Brahmodya competition, which would become a model of authentic theological discourse. The ob...more

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Compassion has been advocated by all the great faiths because it has been found to be the safest and surest means of attaining enlightenment.

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Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an e...more

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If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this w...more

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I had failed to make a gift of myself to God.

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Compassion dervies from the Latin patiri and the Greek pathein, meaning "to suffer, undergo or experience." So "compassion" means "to endure [somethin...more

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Humiliate your enemy is dangerous.

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[T]he family is a school of compassion because it is here that we learn to live with other people. (68)

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If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. (95)