When a person is in a miserable situation, then, yes, it is difficult to develop genuine compassion toward others. That's why I find it difficult to say to poor people, "Please have compassion toward millionaires." That's not easy.

Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions.

Soul is at home in the deep, shaded valleys. Heavy torpid flowers saturated with black grow there. The rivers flow like warm syrup. They empty into huge oceans of soul.

Compassion, along with love, is the face of altruism.

I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend. This gives me a genuine feeling of happiness. It is the practice of compassion.

The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger.

Better grounded emotionally through patience, we become stronger mentally and spiritually, and tend to be healthier physically.