"Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion."
Compassion
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Compassion
Your Greatest Treasures
"I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures."
Being Deeply Loved
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
Learn to Live Without Violence
"…you have to learn to live without violence in such a violent world. It is difficult to live sanely in an insane world but that is the only life there is and one has to find one's way to live through it. All that we can do is to never become violent against violence,...
The Strength of Patience and Love
"In our relationship with children and young people, we are not dealing with mechanical devices that can be quickly repaired, but with living beings who are impressionable, volatile, sensitive, afraid, affectionate; and to deal with them we have to have great...
Freedom and Love Go Together
"Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something - and it is only...
I Have Seen the Light
"I was supremely happy, for I had seen. Nothing could ever be the same. I have drunk at the clear and pure waters and my thirst was appeased... I have seen the Light. I have touched compassion which heals all sorrow and suffering; it is not for myself, but for the...
Servants Are Not Greater Than Their Master
"Very truly, I tell you, servants are not greater than their master, nor are messengers greater than the one who sent them. If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them."
Live in Me
"Live in me, let me live in you, says the Lord."
Remain in Me
"Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me."