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Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
Thomas Merton
Empathy is the deep understanding of the mutual reliance of all beings.
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Loving kindness is the spirit of friendship toward yourself and others.
Sharon Salzberg
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To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through lovingkindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within.
Sharon Salzberg
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Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you.
Confucius
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You only tasted the water. I tasted the gift. The water was simply the container for an act of loving-kindness and nothing could be sweeter.
Michael Josephson