Theme of
Zoom Meeting: Compassion
©2022 by Richard E.
Gordon Last updated: May 6, 2022
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1. What does compassion mean to you?
2. What motivates you to act in a compassionate way?
3. Why is it important to understand why you act compassionately?
4. How do you feel when someone acts compassionately toward you?
5. How do you act compassionately toward yourself? Is practicing self-compassion a good idea?
6. When you act compassionately, do you hope to get anything in return?
7. Tell us about the most compassionate person you ever met in a book? Or in a movie? Did she/her inspire you to be more compassionate in your life?
8. How do you feel toward a person who treats you in non-compassionate way when you are in special need of emotional help? Can such a person ever become a special friend?
9. Is the gift of being a compassionate human being an inherited (genetic) trait?
10. How can parents influence their children to be more compassionate?
11. Can animals show compassion?
12. Do you think women are more compassionate than men? Or do they just show compassion in different ways?
13. How do compassion and empathy differ?
14. Would you rather be viewed by your family as compassionate or as intelligent?
15. Can a person without compassion be a source of love?
16. How, if at all, has your view of compassion been influenced by our discussion? Do you see compassion in a different light?
1. Give Compassion: Every day the average person fights epic battles never told just to survive. Ken Poirot
2. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength. Dalai Lama
3. In compassion, when we feel with the other, we dethrone ourselves from the center of our world and we put another person there. Karen Armstrong
4. Until you have real compassion, you cannot recognize love. Bob Thurman
Compassion is the basis of morality.―
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.―
Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.―
8. The
assumption that
animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no
moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and
barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
― The Basis
of Morality
9. "If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion." -- Dalai Lama
10. "Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves." -- Pema Chodron
The End