Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into people’s hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance on filling the human ‘brain’ with knowledge, but no one seems to care about filling the human ‘heart’ with compassion.
The mind knows only what lies near the heart.
-Edith Hamilton
"Mythology"
In the depth of our heart, we already know that we are perfect as we are. In the depth of our inner being, we already know that life is perfect as it is.
-Swami Dhyan Giten
"The Silent Whisperings of the Heart - An Introduction to Giten's Approach to Life"
The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child
My brain tells me it will be better to just let him go. My heart... not so much.
-Simone Elkeles
"Return to Paradise"
Falling in love is easy, letting that love go, is hard. But your heart will always have the right answer. You just have to listen to it and figure out what it’s telling you.
-Marie Coulson
"Bound Together"
Hunger of the heart is much stronger than hunger for food.
-Amanda Comer
The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should obey it.
-C. S. Lewis
"The Abolition of Man"
