by ssreasonings | Jan 2, 2013 | Sherry's Inspirational Quotes
Compassion is our ability to be sympathetic, understanding and merciful. To do so we must have empathy, the ability to hear and understand another’s plight because it is ours too. When we do this without any selfish or self-centered motivation we are in altruistic...
by ssreasonings | Dec 31, 2012 | Sherry's Inspirational Quotes
What do you think of when you think of compassion? I am sure each of us will see it a little differently. Webster defines it as “having a disposition that is understanding, sympathetic, merciful.” For me compassion is only possible if empathy is present. Empathy...
by ssreasonings | Dec 28, 2012 | Sherry's Inspirational Quotes
Kuan Yin is the Goddess of Compassion. Often you will see statues of her with many arms and eyes. She became a Bodhisattva – an enlightened one – one who has earned the right to enter nirvana but instead chose to stay on earth to continue her work of compassion. ...
by ssreasonings | Dec 3, 2012 | Sherry's Inspirational Quotes
What is mindfulness and what is its purpose? Mindfulness is being fully present in your life without judgment, reaction or distraction. Its purpose is to learn that everything you need in each moment is being supplied. It increases gratitude. And another purpose is...
by ssreasonings | Nov 23, 2012 | Sherry's Inspirational Quotes
Let it be said that we are a generation of mindful people who live not in fear but in truth, which is then expressed in gratitude, in presence, in mindful living, in love. Let us be the generation who know and live in higher consciousness. This is the hope in us for...