Author: Joan Halifax

Quotes

Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others.

Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others.

- Joan Halifax

Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.

Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.

- Joan Halifax

If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do what they're supposed to do, which is to transform suffering?

If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do what they're supposed to do, which is to transform suffering?

- Joan Halifax

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