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2009-06-28

Compassion…for all things of the earth

It is utterly and irrevocably possible to empty all hurts and, therefore, to love, to have compassion. To have compassion means to have passion for all things, not just between two people, but for all human beings, for all things of the earth, the animals, the trees, everything the earth contains. When ...

2009-06-27

Compassion acts through intelligence

The very nature of intelligence is sensitivity, and this sensitivity is love. Without this intelligence there can be no compassion. Compassion is not the doing of charitable acts or social reform; it is free from sentiment, romanticism and emotional enthusiasm. It is as strong as death. It is like a...

2009-06-26

Passion is free of the self

Passion is wholly different from lust, interest or enthusiasm. Interest in something can be very deep, and you can use that interest for profit or for power, but that interest is not passion. Interest may be stimulated by an object or by an idea. Interest is self-indulgence. Passion is free of the self. ...

2009-06-25

Passion without a cause

Passion is something which very few of us have really felt. What we may have felt is enthusiasm, which is being caught up in an emotional state over something. Our passion is for something: for music, for painting, for literature, for a country, for a woman or a man; it is always the effect of a cause. ...

2009-06-24

Sorrow and passion

If you remain without a single movement of thought, with that which you have called sorrow, there comes a transformation in that which you have called sorrow. That becomes passion. The root meaning of “sorrow” is passion. When you escape from it, you lose that quality which comes from sorrow, ...

2009-06-23

Compassion means passion for all

What is the relationship of a mind which has understood sorrow and therefore the ending of sorrow? What is the quality of the mind that is no longer afraid of ending, which is death? When energy is not dissipated through escape, then energy becomes the flame of passion. Compassion means passion for all. ...