CURRENT WISDOM

Matthew Fox: Compassion is not sentiment but is making justice and doing works of mercy. Compassion is not a moral commandment but a flow and overflow of the fullest human and divine energies.

Albert Einstein: A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to enhance all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Albert Einstein: The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.

Kahlil Gibran, from The Prophet: Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Mark Twain: To get the full value of joy, you must have somebody to share it with.

Author Unknown: To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart,
and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.