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"It is not a romantic love or an infatuation; it is a love of compassion based on the simple acceptance of another being just as they are. You may also try the exercise with yourself as the focus. From this you may discover that loving yourself is not simply a matter of thinking how wonderful you are; it is also letting go of all the judgments you may have of yourself, and accepting yourself with greater compassion." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.) "You are beginning to perceive them with a more open heart—with more empathy and compassion. You can do the same exercise focusing on someone you do not know so well. As you let go of preconceptions about who and how they might be, a new degree of openness can appear. You begin to understand what it really means to love a stranger—or even to love an enemy. It is not a romantic love or an infatuation; it is a love of compassion based on the simple acceptance of another being just as they are. You may also try the exercise with yourself as the focus." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"You want me to have compassion? My work was too important to let compassion or any personal motives interfere. So, don't expect me to be compassionate now. And besides, the German people deserve to die, too; they let me down. They aren't worthy of the great new world we were offering them." It was on a Friday evening that we went to see the new German film, Downfall. It was everything that Alexander the Great was not. While Alexander was made to look absurd and laughable, Adolf Hitler looked very real—and pathetic." - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.)

"Finally, send your message of compassion to all people and living things on Earth. ?Practice switching roles with some of your loved ones. Imagine what it is like to be your partner or spouse, your parent, your child. Get inside your loved ones' shoes and imagine what it would be like to see the world through their eyes, with their hopes and fears and dreams. Think how you would respond. ?Jerome Stone quotes Sogyal Rinpoche, author of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying?" - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"Some of them I'd never met before, but I was always received with eagerness and compassion. People are really wonderful. I asked them questions like, 'What's the most helpful thing you did for yourself?' 'How did you cope?' 'What do I need to look out for?' and 'What can I do to be in the ninety percent group?' " Hair loss is an almost inevitable result of chemotherapy, and one thing Erica did not want was for people to look at her bald head and think, "Oh, that poor woman!" or "She must be on her last legs!" or even, "Maybe she's part of some religious cult!" - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.) "I felt their humanity and compassion and willingness to get me up, and could see how a random group would unhesitatingly form into a good-natured pickup team. They really felt good about themselves. From that day on, I welcomed anyone who came to my aid. And when they did, I got a jolt of energy from it." Cesar initiated a new phase in his previously one-sided giving. By learning to be open to receiving, he created new neural pathways and thus changes in his own biochemical environment." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.) "Giving and its emotional siblings, compassion and empathy, all focus our attention on now. This perspective produces a potpourri of benefits: relieving physical stress, enabling blood flow, deepening our breathing, facilitating digestion, relaxing muscles, and restoring immune function. ONE CHILD OR A BILLION DOLLARS? We all know that large philanthropic bequests generate a lot of attention and, perhaps, get results. From a social standpoint, size matters. From a physical standpoint, all giving, regardless of the gift's size, has health payoffs." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"The Culture of Life manifests as cooperation, health, harmony, and compassion, combined with production of healthy, natural, organic foods that preserve soil and minimizes the pollution of both people and planet. The Culture of Life helps us reconnect to our heart and soul in a way that brings the presence of light, love, and the Divine back into the core of our human experience." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"He could plow ahead with medical school, bringing new powers of compassion and insight to the people he would have as patients. He could share his experiences and inspire others. He could nurture and take advantage of the interest his injury stimulated in others and educate them about health and safety. As a clear benefit to his chosen career, he could use his disability to demonstrate that doctors can come in all sizes, shapes, and styles. And he had the opportunity to bring greater sensitivity and newfound gratitude and appreciation to his wife-to-be." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"Most forms of Christianity teach that belief opens the door to healing, is perhaps a necessary moral condition for healing; but that healing itself is a gift from God, a reward for faith and a sign of divine power and compassion. In contrast, "the power of positive thinking" narrative puts the focus squarely on the believer and the power he or she possesses in him- or herself. The power that this narrative ultimately asks us to acknowledge is not the power of God but rather the power of faith itself." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"In addition to the qualities of eros, the passion of love that we know so well, and the quality of agape, the Greek word for unconditional love—the compassion that we find when we let go of the judgments we hold against others—there comes the quality of caritas, the Latin word for caring, sometimes translated as "charity," as in "faith, hope and charity." Caritas, or caring, is not so much an emotion as an attitude. It is love in action. When this is present in a relationship, a miracle unfolds." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"Only on rare occasions did I feel disturbed or shocked, and rarer still were the lucid dreams in which I felt threatened because, normally, I saw the threatening figure as a personification of my fears, which needed compassion and understanding. There seemed only one way to get to the bottom of this. Lucid, I set out to probe the responsively aware, conscious unconscious and see how it responds. How much does the unconscious know? Does it have a purpose?" - Robert Waggoner, Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self (Get the book.)

"Miracle does not use patience, compassion, trust, or any other of our usual human means of interacting with patients: Instead, Dr. Miracle, befitting his name, chooses magic. "And what is so wrong with magic?" Dr. Miracle replies. "It got the job done." What is so wrong, we counter, is that this form of magic is an illusion performed more for the benefit of the magician than for the patient; the metaphor at work here is that of the exorcist trying to trick the pain into leaving the body. This is a thoroughly inadequate model of medicine for our age." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"This is how Jesus was able to express compassion for those who crucified him: "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do."1 Being bound to a person through unforgiveness reminds me of a practice from ancient Greece. Evidently, when a person was convicted of murdering someone, the corpse of that person was tied to the murderer and s/he was forced to drag it around with them. That's sort of how it works when we won't forgive someone who we think has wronged us. They continue to plague our mind and drag us down. True forgiveness cuts that connection and sets us free." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"But if You can do anything, have compassion on us and help us." Jesus said to him, "If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes." Immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, "Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!" When Jesus saw that the people came running together, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, "Deaf and dumb spirit, I command you, come out of him and enter him no more!" Then the spirit cried out, convulsed him greatly, and came out of him. And he became as one dead, so that many said, "He is dead." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.) "When the researchers in Davidson's laboratory put 128 electrodes on Ricard's head and asked him to meditate on "unconditional loving-kindness and compassion," they noticed powerful gamma activity—brain waves oscillating at roughly 40 cycles per second in a highly synchronized Matthieu Ricard in the laboratory of Richard Davidson (University of Wisconsin, Madison) preparing to undergo EEG investigations of his brain while meditating." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"In this book, the author brings to light man's deep inner need for spiritual wisdom in life and helps the reader develop a new sense of reality that is based on love, power, and compassion. He describes our relationship with the natural world in detail and discusses how we can harness its tremendous powers for our personal and humanity's benefit. Time to Come Alive challenges some of our most commonly held beliefs and offers a way out of the emotional restrictions and physical limitations we have created in our lives." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Values: (i) Importance of Acceptance, compassion, Knowledge, Understanding." (4) Science vs. Superstition (5) Self-responsibility hi. Causes of Distress: (1) Egocentric biases leading to excessive or inappropriate anger, envy, cravings, etc. (the "toxins") and false beliefs ("delusions"). (2) Underlying self-defeating beliefs that reinforce biases. (3) Attaching negative meanings to events, iv." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "Acceptance and compassion were key similarities. Also, in both systems, we try to help people with their overattach-ment to material things and symbols (of success, etc., something we call "addiction"). He appeared to echo what is also the essence of the cognitive approach, namely self-responsibility rather than depending on some external force to inspire ethical standards. Below is a list of similarities that I suggested to the Dalai Lama in our private meeting. similarities between cognitive therapy and buddhism i. Goals: Serenity, Peace of Mind, Relief of Suffering ii." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "It was also evident that these professors and lawyers and businesspeople, while not lacking in compassion, suspected my clients of having taken way too many drugs and/or being possessed of a seedy moral shiftlessness. The consensus was that while my clients were no doubt victims of multiple forms of injustice, their own characterological defects or weakness was the primary cause of their problems. I was sure that I was suspected of slumming—of immersing myself in a noble but deeply unsuitable venture for someone of my background and education." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "What led to the demise of the lobotomy era was not any newfound compassion or enlightenment, but simply the emergence of antipsychotic drugs that made psychosurgery "redundant."16 In the United States, Community Psychiatry began when the profession took its first tentative steps into office practice between the world wars. The emigration of European psychoanalysts after World War I, and particularly after World War II, led to the establishment of office-based practices, particularly in large eastern cities like New York, Boston, and Philadelphia." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Meditation helps me understand my family with compassion. They do not occupy my mind. I am no longer consumed with anger. I am detached from those that caused me anxieties. The process of uncluttering objects and toxic people had the effect of unclut-tering me emotionally. I am rid of unnecessary objects at home. Writing forgiveness letters to my mother calmed my anger and helped me articulate my feelings. I no longer dwell on the past. I am happy in my new career as a freelance editor and satisfied with my clients. It is a pleasure not to be in a toxic office." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"They may even end up in jail, like so many doctors who out of kindness and compassion have offered alternative, unauthorized treatments to their patients. Can we, therefore, reasonably expect to find out from the medical doctors and the technologies they employ, what really bothers us when we are sick? This is highly unlikely, although I am pleased to say there is a steadily increasing number of exceptions. For the most part, we remain in the Dark Ages with regard to true healing." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"From this you may discover that loving yourself is not simply a matter of thinking how wonderful you are; it is also letting go of all the judgments you may have of yourself, and accepting yourself with greater compassion. Love and Judgment We have already seen two ways in which the materialist meme —the belief that inner peace, joy, and fulfillment depend on what we have or do in the external world —can limit us. It prevents us from being at peace. And it takes our attention away from the present moment. We are now seeing a third way in which it can be a handicap." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"Its very nature is limitless health, compassion, peace, wisdom, love, and joy—the infinite source of every superlative virtue and power. It is in you. You are in it. You are it. You are merely unconscious of the fact, and because you are unconscious of it, you cannot tap its power. Meditation will change that in magnificent ways. It's ironic that we work so hard to attain happiness. We struggle to earn a good living, be healthy, have a wonderful home, a loving family and friends, and a little excitement." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"And it was consistent with the church message of compassion. Soon, when they went on missions to China or to other countries, they sent medical professionals to perform curative and restorative medicine as well as preachers to teach theology and preventative medicine. "The term Ellen White used was 'the right arm of the church.' That was her phrase for the health message," Giang said. "I think what she meant was that this right arm could reach across cultures and shake hands and open doors. And it also became a good way for paying the bills." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"Our awareness of unity blossoms into compassion, not only for other humans but in all of our relationships, moving us into a stream of love—the glue bonding all together. Peace emanates from the heart when equilibrium between heaven and earth is maintained by a balanced and open heart chakra. The element of air resides in the heart chakra, and it is our breath being received by the heart that sends vitality throughout our whole being. It is also our main connection to the plant world, as the plants give of their breath for us to have ours." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.) "And yet, it is this very forgiving that puts healing into motion by removing the shackles from the heart, allowing it to invigorate with coherence leading to compassion. If you continue hard-heartedness you are hurt not just once but repeatedly by the energy you expend holding on to your grudge. But forgiving, as Howard Martin so eloquently states, "releases you from the punishment of a self-made prison in which you are both the inmate and the jailer." During a Plant Spirit Healing class one homework assignment was to give positive impulses to the heart." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.) "Earth community listening and speaking from the heart and in so doing, we are informed by one another's wisdom and compassion; ?conscious choice where we recognize that our daily choices, even the small and habitual ones, have an impact on Earth's species in both beneficial and destructive ways and we seek to promote lifestyles that lead to social justice, sustainability, and ecological security for all the life on Earth and in so doing, we live with conscious intent; ?" - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.) "It is the color of the heart chakra, where love and compassion reside and where the circulation of blood and oxygen through the body can be felt. When we are in the natural world surrounded by green living plants, trees, and grasses, we feel nurtured, supported, and vibrantly alive. The frequency of the green biophoton is received by our cells, which are healed by the presence of green. Plants also inform us of their associations with other systems that incorporate color." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

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