Compassion is the feeling of shared suffering. When you feel someone else's suffering, there is the birth of understanding.
Deepak ChopraIf you can accept the flow of life and give in to it, you will be accepting what is real. Only when you accept what is real can you live with it in peace and happiness. The alternative is a struggle that will never end because it is a struggle with the unreal, with a mirage of life instead of life itself.
Deepak ChopraPuffballs of vanity when they're not being absurdly violent; wretchedly unhappy in their mental prisons and too stubborn to open the door and escape.
Deepak Chopra