"My compassion is not for the individual, but for that beingness which has trapped itself into identifying with individuals."

-- Nisargadatta

"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each man's life a sorrow and a suffering enough to disarm all hostility."

-- Krishnamurti

"If you don't heed the cry of a dog on a chain, how do you expect God to hear your cries."

-- Jack Kerouac

"If we could read the secret histories of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."

-- Longfellow

"Accustomed to contemplating love and compassion, I have forgotten all the difference between myself and others."

-- Milarepa

"The practice is finding compassion no matter what."

-- Cheri Huber

"The longer I live, the larger allowances I make for human infirmities."

-- John Wesley

"Compassion is the chief law of human existence."

-- Dostoyevsky

"Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things."

-- Thomas Merton

"If we undertake being a good, compassionate person as a personal identity, it just gets in the way of awakening."

-- Adyashanti