Compassion Requires Accepting Our Differences

 

As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect
the uniqueness of others.
- Robert H. Schuller

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
- M. Scott Peck

It is not our differences that divide us.
It is our inability to recognize, accept,
and celebrate those differences.
- Audre Lorde

You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
- Theodor Adorno

When we have expectations (demands), we think we know how people SHOULD behave, and we can have no compassion. Only after we accept that another person's uniquely "right" path does not follow our own preconceptions, can we be compassionate.

The essence of compassion is accepting others as unique individuals,
without believing that they are less good for not being carbon copies of ourselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Condemn None

Empathy

Understanding

Signs of a Compassionate Person

Do What You Can
     

Celebrate Our Differences

As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect
the uniqueness of others.
- Robert H. Schuller

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
- M. Scott Peck

It is not our differences that divide us.
It is our inability to recognize, accept,
and celebrate those differences.
- Audre Lorde

You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
- Theodor Adorno

When we have expectations (demands), we think we know how people SHOULD behave, and we can have no compassion. Only after we accept that another person's uniquely "right" path does not follow our own preconceptions, we can be compassionate.

The essence of compassion is accepting others as unique individuals,
without believing that they are less good for not being carbon copies of ourselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Condemn None

Empathy

Understanding

Signs of a Compassionate Person

Do What You Can
     

Honor Our Differences

 

As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect
the uniqueness of others.
- Robert H. Schuller

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
- M. Scott Peck

It is not our differences that divide us.
It is our inability to recognize, accept,
and celebrate those differences.
- Audre Lorde

You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
- Theodor Adorno

When we have expectations (demands), we think we know how people SHOULD behave, and we can have no compassion. Only after we accept that another person's uniquely "right" path does not follow our own preconceptions, we can be compassionate.

The essence of compassion is accepting others as unique individuals,
without believing that they are less good for not being carbon copies of ourselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Condemn None

Empathy

Understanding

Signs of a Compassionate Person

Do What You Can
     

Honor All People

 

As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect
the uniqueness of others.
- Robert H. Schuller

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
- M. Scott Peck

It is not our differences that divide us.
It is our inability to recognize, accept,
and celebrate those differences.
- Audre Lorde

You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
- Theodor Adorno

When we have expectations (demands), we think we know how people SHOULD behave, and we can have no compassion. Only after we accept that another person's uniquely "right" path does not follow our own preconceptions, we can be compassionate.

The essence of compassion is accepting others as unique individuals,
without believing that they are less good for not being carbon copies of ourselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Condemn None

Empathy

Understanding

Signs of a Compassionate Person

Do What You Can
     

Honor Our Differences

As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect
the uniqueness of others.
- Robert H. Schuller

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
- M. Scott Peck

It is not our differences that divide us.
It is our inability to recognize, accept,
and celebrate those differences.
- Audre Lorde

You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
- Theodor Adorno

When we have expectations (demands), we think we know how people SHOULD behave, and we can have no compassion. Only after we accept that another person's uniquely "right" path does not follow our own preconceptions, we can be compassionate.

The essence of compassion is accepting others as unique individuals,
without believing that they are less good for not being carbon copies of ourselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Condemn None

Empathy

Understanding

Signs of a Compassionate Person

Do What You Can
     

Respecting Other Cultures and Backgrounds

You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
- M. Scott Peck

As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect
the uniqueness of others.
- Robert H. Schuller

If you have some respect for people as they are,
you can be more effective in helping them
to become better than they are.
- John W. Gardner

The essence of compassion is accepting others as unique individuals,
without believing that they are less good for not being carbon copies of ourselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: What Compassion Looks Like

Opportunity for Kindness

Open Minds

Diversity

Tolerance
   

Accepting Others

You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
- M. Scott Peck

If you have some respect for people as they are,
you can be more effective in helping them
to become better than they are.
- John W. Gardner

As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect
the uniqueness of others.
- Robert H. Schuller

Fear of difference is fear of life itself.
- M. P. Follett

We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin,
but we all belong to one human race.
- Kofi Annan

The essence of compassion is accepting others as unique individuals,
without believing that they are less good for not being carbon copies of ourselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Opportunity for Kindness

What Compassion Looks Like

Open Minds

Tolerance

Diversity
   

Through the Eyes of Another

You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee

As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect
the uniqueness of others.
- Robert H. Schuller

It is not our differences that divide us.
It is our inability to recognize, accept,
and celebrate those differences.
- Audre Lorde

The essence of compassion is accepting others as unique individuals,
without believing that they are less good for not being carbon copies of ourselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading:  Tolerance

Open Minds

Diversity

Travel

Celebrating Your Differences

If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect.
If it's not based on respect,
nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
- Amy Grant

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Fear of difference is fear of life itself.
- M. P. Follett

Differences challenge assumptions.
- Anne Wilson Schaef

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
- M. Scott Peck

You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee

Further reading: Renewing Love

Differences of Opinion

Respecting Others

Each To Their Own

Celebrating Our Differences

What Does Compassion Look Like?

It is not our differences that divide us.
It is our inability to recognize, accept,
and celebrate those differences.
- Audre Lorde

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
- Theodor Adorno

You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
- M. Scott Peck

As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect
the uniqueness of others.
- Robert H. Schuller

The essence of compassion is accepting others as unique individuals,
without believing that they are less good for not being carbon copies of ourselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When we have expectations (demands), we think we know how people SHOULD behave, and we can have no compassion. Only after we accept that another person's uniquely "right" path does not follow our own preconceptions, we can be compassionate.

Further reading: Signs of a Compassionate Person

Condemn None

Understanding

Empathy

Do What You Can

Open Minds

Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar

Only when we realize that there is no eternal,
unchanging truth or absolute truth, can we arouse in
ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.
- Hu Shih

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs.
Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
- John F. Kennedy

Love is saying "I feel differently," instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous

You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee

Approach life with an Open Mind,
Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Perspective of Love

Perspective on Tradition: An Open Mind

Reason

My Own Person

Imagination

Fully Awake

Travel

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.
- Danny Kaye

Travel teaches toleration.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness,
and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.
Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things
cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
- Mark Twain

To acquire knowledge, one must study;
but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
- Marilyn vos Savant

You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee

I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

We are all different - and we are all one.
Take time to understand, and to appreciate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Dare to dream of your great success

Boldly Sail the Storms of Life

One World

The World is My Family

Travel

World

Point of View

Observer

Each To Their Own

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling
with other men's concerns.
- Plato

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs.
Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
- John F. Kennedy

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
[and freedom is equally the right of others to live as they wish]

Love is saying "I feel differently," instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous

You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee

To know what you prefer
instead of humbly saying Amen
to what the world tells you you ought to prefer,
is to have kept your soul alive.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Further reading: Celebrating Our Differences

See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil

Respect Others

Your True Self

Give People the Gift of Themselves

Different and yet the Same

Understanding

Categorizing People

There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us.
When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Once you label me, you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard

You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee

Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories
by which we categorize and dismiss each other need
to be excavated from the inside.
- Dorothy Allison

We do both others and ourselves a disservice when we attempt to categorize people.

Further reading:  Enemy-Friend-Partner

All Different - All One

Respecting the Uniqueness of Others

Judging People

Opinions

Hate

Prejudice

Evil

Changing Others

We cause ourselves untold misery whenever we believe
others to be imperfect and try to change them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You have no ability whatsoever to change anyone other than yourself. You can only cause yourself great suffering if you try.

You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee

Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell

Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Further reading: Don't Take It Personally

Two Rules For Living A Successful Life

The #1 Secret of Great Relationships

Seeing Others

Diversity

Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity
are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
- Doug Floyd

Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous

You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee

Today, as I wish great happiness to our Hindu and Jain friends celebrating the first of 5 days of Diwali - (the Festival of Lights), I am again reminded of the diversity and wonderful spirit of so many people around our world.  Approximately 30% of the 80,000 subscribers to these Daily Inspirations live outside the United States. There are readers in 197 of the world's 203 countries, and Daily Inspiration readers represent a wide spectrum of belief systems. Yet there is something in these encouraging daily messages that unites us all.

Further reading: Spirit transcends all cultural differences

Perspective on Belief

We Are One

Diversity Quotes

Celebrate Life Quotes

Quotes about Differences

Quotes about Gentleness

Quotes about Perspective

Quotes about Harmony

Perspective On Life

We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin

Your point of view sets you up well in advance
for how you view the events as they unfold.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee

When any situation arises which tempts you to become disturbed,
say: "There is another way of looking at this."
- A Course In Miracles

Further reading: Perspective - what is the difference between a flower and a weed?

We All Want Great Results but what are "great results?"

Don't Let Assumptions Limit Your Greatness

Apples and Oranges

If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange, celebrate your differences - make a great fruit salad. Love isn't about being the same - it's about being sweet with each other. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie 

 I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. - Martin Luther King, Jr. 

 Differences challenge assumptions. - Anne Wilson Schaef 

 You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. - Harper Lee 

 Share our similarities, celebrate our differences. - M. Scott Peck 

 Further reading: Where Minds and Hearts are Open 

  Assumptions are Very Limiting

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. - Harper Lee

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee

If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford

Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world, we are all one.
- jlh

Color of skin, languages, religions, and traditions are all part of the magnificence of humanity. Honor diversity.

Further reading: Perspective on Tradition: An Open Mind

Joy Blooms Where Minds and Hearts are Open

The Nature of Belief

Question your questions

Acceptance Makes a Great Relationship Even Better