| Who knows, but that the universe
is not one vast sea of compassion?
- Jack Kerouac
Do unto others as they would like to have you do unto them.
- Platinum
Rule
Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires
no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge
. . . is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and
live in another’s world. It requires profound, purpose-larger-than-the-self
kind of understanding.
- Bill Bullard, quoted online Free
Will Astrology
Hal: Reese, do you know what empathy is?
Reese: No.
Hal: Well, empathy is putting yourself in other people's shoes
so you can feel what they do. If you hurt someone, empathy makes
you hurt as well.
Reese: Then why would you want empathy?
- Malcolm
in the Middle
We have to look at the things the way they are, painful and
overwhelmingly as that may be, for no healing can begin until
we are fully present to our world, until we learn to sustain
the gaze.
- Joanna Macy, World
as Lover, World as Self
The golden rule is more and more recognized as the first rule
of travel and adventure travel and I'm told that group organizers
are rewarded by their customers for observing it.
- Clay
Hubbs
When things go wrong with you, it hurts me too.
- Grateful Dead
I feel your pain.
- U.S. President Bill Clinton
I wore my heart out on my sleeve, but then they shot me down
- Sarah Hickman
He who knows all, forgives all.
- Popular expression
Apart from that Mrs Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?
- Tom
Lehrer
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