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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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Then, as now, there would always be people who preferred the option of devoting their religious energies to sacred space over the more difficult duty ...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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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)