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
     

Embrace Your Uniqueness

 

The first step in the evolution of ethics
is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer

Embrace your uniqueness.
Time is much too short to be
living someone else's life.
- Kobi Yamada

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

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

Once you respect yourself, there is no longer
any reason to disrespect anyone else.
Once you are confident of your own worthiness,
the worthiness of others ceases to be an issue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Every man and woman is born into the world
to do something unique and something distinctive;
and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.
- Benjamin E. Mays

Today's affirmation:
I celebrate both my uniqueness
and my connection with all that is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Recognize, Accept, and Celebrate Differences

Accept Others

Avoid Labeling Yourself
      

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
     

Solidarity with Other Human Beings

The first step in the evolution of ethics
is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer

Embrace your uniqueness.
Time is much too short to be
living someone else's life.
- Kobi Yamada

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

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

Once you respect yourself, there is no longer
any reason to disrespect anyone else.
Once you are confident of your own worthiness,
the worthiness of others ceases to be an issue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Every man and woman is born into the world
to do something unique and something distinctive;
and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.
- Benjamin E. Mays

Today's affirmation:
I celebrate both my uniqueness
and my connection with all that is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Recognize, Accept, and Celebrate Differences

Accept Others

Avoid Labeling Yourself
      

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
     

Unique, Yet Bonded To All Humanity

Embrace your uniqueness.
Time is much too short to be
living someone else's life.
- Kobi Yamada

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

The first step in the evolution of ethics
is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer

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

Every man and woman is born into the world
to do something unique and something distinctive;
and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.
- Benjamin E. Mays

Once you respect yourself, there is no longer
any reason to disrespect anyone else.
Once you are confident of your own worthiness,
the worthiness of others ceases to be an issue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today's affirmation:
I celebrate both my uniqueness
and my connection with all that is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Avoid Labeling Yourself

Accept Others

Recognize, Accept, and Celebrate Differences
      

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
   

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

Celebrating Our Differences

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

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

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

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

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

Further reading: Empathy

Categorizing People

Oneness

Apples and Oranges

Judging People

Differences

Acceptance

Uniqueness and Unity

Embrace your uniqueness.
Time is much too short to be
living someone else's life.
- Kobi Yamada

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

The first step in the evolution of ethics
is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer

Affirmation:
I celebrate both my uniqueness
and my connection with all that is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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Quotes about Balance

Judging Others

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa

People see themselves as the center of the universe
and judge everything as it relates to them.
- Peace Pilgrim

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others,
I can see them as teachers.
- Gerald Jampolsky

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

Today's affirmation
I Resist the Temptation to Judge Others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Open Mind - Open Heart

May You Be Blessed

Why I Choose to Believe that Others are Never the Cause of My Unhappiness

Quotes about Judging People

Quotes about Acceptance

Quotes about Diversity

Quotes about Attitude

Quotes about Unity

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- Maya Angelou

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

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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 

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Differences

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

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

Recall a recent time when someone was strongly critical
of your opinions (perhaps your political or religious beliefs).
Now, put yourself in their shoes - with compassion.
Try to understand and appreciate their point-of-view -
not to change your own opinions,
but to celebrate all our human differences - in peace.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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Celebrate

The more you praise and celebrate your life,
the more there is in life to celebrate.
- Oprah Winfrey

Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters

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

Celebrate! Celebration is an expression of Gratitude.
Gratitude is like the prayer, while
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Celebration is its own road to happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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Celebrate what you want to see more of. - Tom Peters

Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
- Walt Whitman

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

I create Today as a celebration of my life.
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