With compassion, you need to be able to envision the end goal – the happiness that you want the other to attain. It is not the case that when you feel compassion you only see suffering and pain and cannot see anything beyond that. Rather, you have the imagination to see the other as free and happy, and you keep that aim in mind”
17th Karmapa
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Further quotes from the book Interconnected :
- Enjoying the goodness of what you are doing
- Interdependence always works both ways
- A greater sense of possibility
- Concealing our weaknesses
- A Vast and Complex Web of Causality
- The impulse to connect
- Cultivating a spirit of generosity
- Interdependent individual
- Viewing others through the lens of interdependence
- Experiencing connection rather than isolation
- Discovering new potentials
- Bringing about real change in the world
- Recollecting kindness
- Focusing on our inner interdependence
- A genuine sense of affection
- Individualism or interdependence
- Gratitude
- The power of our senses
- The full vividness of direct contact
- Self-discipline