Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
- Swami Vivekananda
Tag Archive for compassion
Love is Friendship on Fire
QUOTE CARD: “Love is friendship that has caught on fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.”
-Ann Landers
Same Boat
QUOTE CARD: “We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.”
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nelson Mandela’s Lesson on Love
GLOBAL VIEWS: I was just in South Africa a few weeks ago and had lunch in Mandela Square in Sandton City, a commercial and entertainment hub in the heart of Johannesburg. A jovial bronzed statute of Nelson Mandela towers almost twenty feet above the sidewalk cafés and exclusive boutiques. People of different nationalities co-mingle as they dine and shop under foot. Adjacent to the luxurious Michelangelo Hotel, the statute and Square represent a South Africa that Nelson Mandela helped create – where all are considered equal under the constitution and the country itself can participate freely in the global economy.
Be First
QUOTE CARD: “Strive to be first:
first to nod,
first to smile,
first to compliment,
first to forgive.”
-Anonymous
The Lord Is My Shepherd
BOOK: The Lord Is My Shepherd: Healing Wisdom of the Twenty-third Psalm, by Harold S. Kushner. The Twenty-third Psalm is perhaps the most memorized chapter of the Bible.
A Course in Miracles
BOOK: A Course in Miracles, by Foundation for Inner Peace – “Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.” That is how A Course in Miracles begins. Although it is based on a Christian interpretation of the Bible, the Course deals with universal spiritual themes such as compassion.
Rev. Jaganath Carrera on “Yoga & Spirituality”
POWER LIVING® TV: Join the conversation with Reverend Jaganath Carrera on “Yoga & Spirituality.” Rev. Carrera is founder and spiritual head of the Yoga Life Society and author of Inside the Yoga Sutras and Awaken: Inside Yoga Meditation. As a direct disciple of Sri Swami Satchidananda Maharaj, he established the Integral Yoga Ministry, codeveloped the Integral Yoga Meditation and Raja Yoga Teacher Training Certification programs, and has taught all facets of yoga for more than 30 years.
