Every day I repeat many times, "In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful". In Arabic the word for compassion is 'rahman' and is etymologically related to the word for womb. The womb nourishes and protects as compassion also nourishes and protects our spiritual lives and waters our belief so that it flourishes and does not die in the dust of a dry formality.

I have compassion for my puppy, who eats her own poop as soon as she creates it. My learned judgment of this is to be disgusted an punish her, but then I realized what good food she eats an how scared she may be out in the cold and I think that if that were me I would probably gladly eat my own poop too.

We acknowledge our beliefs are driven by our thoughts and we hereby make the conscious decision to focus our thinking, believing we were created to represent God as His ambassadors exercising and administering the tools of His goodness which includes maintaining the very framework of compassion. Through our heartfelt desire to become more compassionate, we choose to acknowledge the best in others, the best in our self, and act in good faith toward upholding this expected end.

All people, all religions, all cultures understand compassion very well, as they do understand God; they have to for they all come from God. But in doing so, they make their claim on God, on compassion, on truth. Can anyone claim the air or sunlight? So how can we possibly make a claim on God, truth or compassion which are infinitely greater than these. All that is in the universe, whether we understand it or not, comes from God and has a purpose. To make a judgement on any of God's creation is to make a judgement on God. Therefore, we must be respectful and compassionate to all, and see all people, cultures and religions with the love that God sees them from the very moment God created them.

Compassion is an exercise of our free will, a CHOICE to love and honor the good of the whole.

It is probably already mentioned by others, but just in case: It is also important that we have compassion for ourselves, first and foremost. That we forgive ourselves for our weaknesses and fears, our anger and greed, and to recognize the whole of humanity in ourselves, and to understand and to forgive. It is important to understand why we should not despair because we cannot seem to change the world or even ourselves, but instead to feel peace and happiness in knowing for sure who we are deep down inside and to make that one choice that we do have: To be ourselves. Many of us know that this requires faith, that we have looked for and found support in believes, and guidelines, rules, denial and submission, but in the end, it’s good to know who makes the one and only choice, and who finds the only way to get it right, because that is us as well.

Everything is as it should be. It is from this vantage point that Compassion is manifested through deed. Only then can the depth of our devotion be evidenced.

"We are all spiritual beings having a human experience." Most individuals are compelled toward consciousness, to transcend self, and to be connected to something greater than self. To live from a place of respect of values inherent to all, creates a sense of freedom by which we can support the emergence of higher potentials.

Compassion is not a spiritual tool separate from ourselves, it is the result or aim of spirituality, although I daresay, some people with no direct experience with spiritual traditions are just as capable of compassion as people who work very hard at it for a long time. Compassion is the non-dualistic understanding of suffering in others which brings about whatever actions are required to help others. If it were a tool, it could be manipulated. Genuine compassion is choiceless and beyond being manipulated.

If we believe that all beings seek to be happy and to avoid suffering, then we have a basis for developing compassion within our hearts, because we can identify and empathize with all beings (religious and non-religious), regardless of their overt behavior. What we need to do is develop the wisdom to see their suffering, feel it as acutely as we feel our own suffering, and to find and emplement skillful, wise ways to alleviate their inner pain and increase their joy.

In holding that we, as world citizens, live interconnected lives, we commit ourselves to Compassion - in internalizing others' problems, joys, hardships, needs, and hopes as our own. Given the great need for the implementation of Compassion, how can we utilize our spiritual and faith traditions in such a quest? We see first that the Divine's unbounded compassion for humankind is the prime example bestowed upon us in reaching out to others. We can grasp higher, through our faith in the Divine, the One, Most Loving Kind, to access our linked oneness, our universality, as brothers and sisters. We have reached an age in which we think, unabashedly, that only through our own capabilities have we attained new heights of technology, or understanding, or even compassion. Our faith acknowledges that our gifts and accomplishments are individual as well as blessings of God. When we rely on Divine wisdom through belief, we humble ourselves in tapping the Vast - the Divine, the wealthiest source of Compassion of all - and the origin of us all as well.

In my experience, meditation is the answer to showing people how to embrace compassion more easily. The reason is this: that when the mind is free and clear of stress and different forms of disillusions, than it is more free to think clearly to help and accept help. If we join together to teach people to have more open minds, we can teach more compassion.

Sages of all faiths have taught that if we have not love and mercy, we are nothing -- that even should we know all divine truth, what matters infinitely more is that we practice its most essential principle: compassion for other creatures God has created. Many religious adherents throughout history and in the present day tragically have clung too tightly to doctrinal beliefs and not embraced their fellow human beings tightly enough. If we seek to ascend to the highest level of spirituality, we must value people over beliefs; and we must be willing to show true compassion even to those who disagree with us -- yes, even to those who hate us! -- for it is precisely by doing this that we may transform hardened hearts and thus transform the world. The fine instrument of compassion is a much more powerful tool than the blunt force of doctrinal argumentation, because even the most well articulated beliefs mean nothing in the absence of love.

Experiencing who we really are, would lead us to reveal our interconnectedness, and awaken compassion within our heart. Teachers of humanity have bee guiding us to experience our oneness through compassion. For example when Prophet Muhammad said that no one can be a believer unless one love for one's brother human being what one loves for oneself. That was not an advise, it meant to show that humans cannot be believers in God, if they isolate themselves from the rest of humanity, seeing the world in 'duality' 'we' and the other. Love which is the core of compassion makes us concerned with our brothers and sisters in humanity because we see them as part of ourselves. We are connected, because we are originated from one source, the Divine, God, Allah, Tao or any name you choose.

Our belief system impacts the way we view the world. If we are to see the good in our neighbor will experience more good for our self. Should you experience a lack of good in your life, seek it for your fellow man and it will come to you. In reality we cannot harm another without doing great harm to our self.

There is an ancient Sufi lesson that states man can hold more sand in an open palm than in a clenched fist. If we hold too tightly to our ideas, there is no room for growth. The Tao states that a vessel that becomes too full will tip over. Remember that a piggy bank is not broken while it remains empty. When the ego becomes too inflated it is inevitable we will fall. If we hold too tightly to our relationships, we suffocate them. All too often compassion t is a process of letting go in order to grow.

We are one race, the race of man. We are human beings made in the image of God, many colors, shapes, sizes and different languages. We have been given the ability and honor to create life. There is one God with many names. We live on Mother Earth who sustains us with food, shelter, water and air to breathe and gives us the beauty of nature to experience God around us and in us. The power of God is love which has been given to us if we will understand it in ourselves and others and live it and use it. Compassion is the tool through which we will understand and use love for ourselves and all life. We must begin to live as if all life matters. We are not physical beings having a spiritual experience but rather spiritual beings having a physical experience. Compassion is faith working at it's highest level possible for the good of the human race.

Spirituality seeks knowledge of that which is incomprehensible: the nature of the infinite and ultimate, whether described as God, the work of a creator or an impersonal complex system. Certainly we can approach knowledge of the greatest things only with an attitude of awe and respect, as they are greater than any single person or even all persons combined. Each of us is part of the infinite; how better can we seek spiritual knowledge than to respect all components of the whole of the universe? We show compassion to all as a spiritual exercise of respect for what is truly greater than each of us.

My God's name is Compassion and his last name is Love. Your God's name is Love and his last name, Compassion. Sometimes lookin deeply at that tiny difference, leads us to fight each other. Then a third non compassive God prevails. His name is God of War

Why has religion hijacked compassion? Religious belief has caused more death, misery and division than anything else in the history of the world. Forget religious conviction - a hope that something may excuse human failings - and work towards educating everyone in a non-religious way of helping other humans. Currently (to name but two) we have evangelical christians slaughtering in the DR of Congo; Al Queda muslims slaughtering wherever they want - both in the name of their God. Ban religion and some compassion may enter into our world; otherwise division and hatred will continue.

The religious traditions all make it clear that compassion is the test of true spirituality; it takes precedence over belief and doctrinal orthodoxy. Compassion is the path that brings us to the sacred. In our fellow human beings we see what has been called the human face of the divine. It is also the practice that brings us to Nirvana, God, Brahman, or Dao.

ETERNITY My friends are yellow, brown and white, What difference does it make to the light? The joke that beholds us all, Comes to us only at the moment of our greatest fall. Death is our friend, Where there is no trend, Why fear it is really near. Why show me the light, why confuse me? Ignorance was bliss why did you diffuse me? To know is to be a liar, What better way to throw me into fire? When in pain I say your name, The reality that is, is no more the same. The light that shines beyond the star, Is the same in my heart.

constructive abandonment of conventional principles for the purposes of theoretical introspection for discovery of other countenances Not one to ignore the spiritual principles in a domestic spat, my wife brings up an occasion when I reminded her that if she left me with the baby and I sought a divorce successfully she would get very little because of my low income status

We cannot live spiritually without the Spirit breathing through us. Compassion is the breath of the Spirit.

Each comes to understanding at and through his/her own capacity. But one doesn't need to know anything of the ultimate to lessen the suffering of others, thus the most compassionate religions allow for individual interpretation of scripture and teaching. This is the acknowledgment that experience teaches understanding, and understanding manifests compassion. Does the ends justify the means? Yes, for compassion demonstrates innate understanding of the ultimate ideal; regardless of experience.