I wanted to say that because I believe we all felt a sense of solidarity and compassion in that connection.

So, in a sense, the 18 minutes is challenging me to say, In life, this is what's important in terms of compassion.

And because God Himself said that the primary attribute of his is compassion in fact, the Koran says that God decreed upon himself compassion, or, reigned himself in by compassion therefore, our objective and our mission must be to be sources of compassion, activators of compassion, actors of compassion and speakers of compassion and doers of compassion.

Her humanity and compassion are coupled with an acute sense of the iron discipline required for effective governance. These are the reflexes of an impeccable stateswoman.

So when people's symptoms go away, they tend to recur, because there isn't a sense of the other half of what pleasure, happiness, compassion, gratitude, what are the positive emotions.

This is not the same as compassion, but it's conducive to compassion. It opens the channels for compassion.

I would just sum up the way things look, at least from this secular perspective, as far as compassion and the golden rule go, by saying that it's good news that compassion and the golden rule are in some sense built into human nature.

Sami showed compassion.

Have some compassion.

Robert Wright The evolution of compassion

Jonathan Harris wants to make sense of the emotional world of the Web. With deep compassion for the human condition, his projects troll the Internet to find out what we're all feeling and looking for.

And the basic idea of kin selection is that, if an animal feels compassion for a close relative, and this compassion leads the animal to help the relative, then, in the end, the compassion actually winds up helping the genes underlying the compassion itself.

Daniel Goleman on compassion

They need your compassion.

Robert Thurman Expanding your circle of compassion

But anyway, that's the lovely love. And then finally, the fifth step is compassion, universal compassion.

Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.

Krista Tippett Reconnecting with compassion

Compassion is a worthy successor.

Rabbi Jackie Tabick The balancing act of compassion

Swami Dayananda Saraswati The profound journey of compassion

And of some have compassion, making a difference

And that is very important the Charter of Compassion must lead us to develop through true compassion, what is called universal responsibility.

You'll discover compassion and also slowly a relative compassion, and slowly, perhaps if you get the right teaching, you'll discover compassion is a dynamic manifestation of the reality of yourself, which is oneness, wholeness, and that's what you are.

But I'm also going to argue that once you understand the sense in which they are built into human nature, you realize that just affirming compassion, and affirming the golden rule, is really not enough.

Joan Halifax Compassion and the true meaning of empathy

So we can ask What is compassion comprised of?

Terrorists deserve neither compassion nor sympathy.

Most of all, the Republican platform is devoid of compassion.

Chade Meng Tan Everyday compassion at Google

For 40 years, compassion in politics receded.

HH Mustapha Abu Bakr argued for compassion

I saw real humans with real compassion.

On some have compassion, making a distinction,

My country also feels compassion for Haiti compassion in its true meaning, which is to understand the suffering of others and to wish to share it.

Therefore, to create the conditions for global compassion, all we have to do is to reframe compassion as something that is fun.

It s hard to always show compassion even to the people we love, but Robert Thurman asks that we develop compassion for our enemies. He prescribes a seven step meditation exercise to extend compassion beyond our inner circle.

Rev. James Forbes Compassion at the dinner table

For he said to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.

Islam advocates compassion, tolerance and coexistence among all peoples of the world.

Why, they ask, should we show compassion to him?

Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!

For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.

But what I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion, everyday acts of compassion.

So I want to propose a final definition of compassion this is Einstein with Paul Robeson by the way and that would be for us to call compassion a spiritual technology.