Standing up for those who suffer, without expecting anything in return.
The weight says how heavily the value counts in the texts of a tradition. The share beside it says how widespread it is. Rows drawn faintly rest on fewer than five texts; they say something about those texts, nothing yet about the tradition.
These sentences come from sermons and addresses that know nothing of each other. They are set alternately by tradition so that how close they come is visible.
Wenn uns schlechtes Verhalten gezeigt wird und wir mit schlechtem Verhalten darauf reagieren, dann ist das Ergebnis eine doppelte Dosis schlechten Verhaltens, es ist einfache Mathematik!
Ich hatte das Gefühl, als würde er mich ablehnen. Ich hatte das Gefühl, als hätte ich als Mutter versagt. Und ich hatte das Gefühl, dass ich Krishna versagt hatte, weil ich das Kind, das Er mir anvertraut hatte, nicht zu einem Devotee machen konnte.
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
Doing good to others is the highest form of religion. Each week, devote several hours to selfless service without expecting anything, without self-use and without expectation of any reward.
The Sabbath was made for the human being, and not the human being for the Sabbath.
There is no separate self-identity. And also, there is nothing like certainty and permanence. And can we open ourselves to this groundlessness, in a way that we are not consumed by fear, but by the feeling of surprise and mystery and joy and love?
First, it is Dāna, giving. Second, it is Sīla, virtue, integrity, good moral conduct. The third is reflecting on the results of good conduct, how it has karmic consequences, the ones that arise when we act ethically.
The Father loves you. There is a heavenly Father and this Father is interested in you.
Seek the Lord and call upon him, for our God is rich in forgiveness.
A perfect society can therefore only come into being if there are perfect people. And what is a perfect person? Someone who is not deceived by the appearances of the sense world, someone who has transcended them.
It is not the meaning-making for the illness, its interpretation as punishment or as a sign of God's love, that helps a sick person in their distress, but only the compassion of another person.
We should do what we are supposed to do. Once we have done our part, we then pray to Allah, the One who is secure in His majesty, that He not let our hard work be in vain.
That is precisely what is special about the mitzvah of the husband. He is not to think about what he receives from his wife, but exclusively about what he can give her to make her happy.
Loving humanity and showing compassion to others is an immense form of worship of God Almighty and an excellent means of attaining His pleasure and His rewards.
The sacred is always in the profane, the sacred is in simplicity, the sacred is in the everyday, when I look at things consciously
The Buddhist teaching is such that we immediately feel better when we apply the teaching.
It is simply a reminder that the Gospel is political and the Gospel has always been political. We are talking about workers, we are talking about work, we are talking about wages, economy, fairness, justice.
To be humanly great therefore does not mean, from a Buddhist perspective, to become greater than others. It means to grow beyond yourself. To become more patient, more compassionate, more mindful, and wiser.
There is nothing in this cheap and lowly Dunya that would be worth giving up the forgiveness, the reward, and the love of Allah, nothing.
The tragedy had already terribly wounded her. The meaning she had given to the tragedy wounded her further.
The risen Christ continually suffers with all who suffer
Spiritual life is a life that happens on yoga and is woven by the spirit of Vedanta. It consists of selflessness, service, spiritual practices, and self-realization.
God's mercy and grace may be boundless, but they sometimes also seem to be unjust.
Compassion is really about re-humanizing the Other and then acting from that place of non-separation.
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