Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same: with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.
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To give someone a piece of your heart, is worth more than all the wealth in the world.
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The motivation of all religious practice is similar: love, sincerity, honesty. The way of life of practically all religious persons is consistent. The teachings of tolerance, love, and compassion are the same.
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Charity: in the true spirit of that grand old word. For charity literally translated from the original means love, the love that understands, that does not merely share the wealth of the giver, but in true sympathy and wisdom helps men to help themselves.
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The foundation of the Buddha's teachings lies in compassion, and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion.
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My joy was boundless. I had learnt the true practice of law. I had learnt to find out the better side of human nature and to enter men's hearts. I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me that a large part of my time during the twenty years of my practice as a lawyer was occupied in bringing about private compromises of hundreds of cases. I lost nothing thereby: not even money, certainly not my soul.
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Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life, a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.
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It is not enough to be compassionate, we must act.
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I don't understand why people aren't a little more generous with each other.
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There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives: the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them.
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