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Joan Halifax quotes: Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us.

Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us.

Joan Halifax quotes: May I see my own limits with compassion, just as I view the limits of others.

May I see my own limits with compassion, just as I view the limits of others.

Joan Halifax quotes: When we have disorderly lives, it makes it difficult for our minds to be orderly and for us to be at ease with disorder.

When we have disorderly lives, it makes it difficult for our minds to be orderly and for us to be at ease with disorder.

Joan Halifax quotes: Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created.

Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created.

Joan Halifax quotes: Don't ever think compassion is weak. Compassion is about strength.

Don't ever think compassion is weak. Compassion is about strength.

Joan Halifax quotes: 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 quotes: Since we are already Buddhas, happy and suffering Buddhas, wise and confused Buddhas, we are already Buddha.

Since we are already Buddhas, happy and suffering Buddhas, wise and confused Buddhas, we are already Buddha.

Joan Halifax quotes: We believe that it takes a strong back and a soft front to face the world.

We believe that it takes a strong back and a soft front to face the world.

Joan Halifax quotes: No single answer can hold the truth of a good heart.

No single answer can hold the truth of a good heart.

Joan Halifax quotes: Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us as well.

Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us as well.

Joan Halifax quotes: When I first was exposed to Buddhism in the mid-1960s, I said it was so practical and utterly pragmatic. That's what attracted me to Buddhism.

When I first was exposed to Buddhism in the mid-1960s, I said it was so practical and utterly pragmatic. That's what attracted me to Buddhism.

Joan Halifax quotes: For me, Buddhism is a psychology and a philosophy that provides a means, upayas, for working with the mind.

For me, Buddhism is a psychology and a philosophy that provides a means, upayas, for working with the mind.

Joan Halifax quotes: This stuff of a past not worthily lived is also medicine.

This stuff of a past not worthily lived is also medicine.