Compassion is the intention to think and act as if you are no more entitled to get what you want than anyone else is. This intention is based on the conscious understanding that everyone wants about the same things for about the same reasons. Almost all human desires arise from similar instinctive sources. If you maintain this understanding, arbitrary value judgments about inconvenient people start to fall away, like overripe fruit falling from a tree. The assertion that another person is bad, wrong, weak, lazy, ugly, or stupid is just a disguised assertion that you are more entitled to get what you want than he is.

Famous Quotes / Timothy Ray Miller

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Timothy Ray Miller: "Compassion is the intention to think and act as if you are no more entitled to get what you want than anyone else is. This intention is based on the conscious understanding that everyone wants about the same things for about the same reasons. Almost all human desires arise from similar instinctive sources. If you maintain this understanding, arbitrary value judgments about inconvenient people start to fall away, like overripe fruit falling from a tree. The assertion that another person is bad, wrong, weak, lazy, ugly, or stupid is just a disguised assertion that you are more entitled to get what you want than he is."

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Arbitrary	Arise	Assertion	Away
Based	Compassion	Conscious	Desires
Disguised	Entitled	Everyone	Fall
Falling	Fruit	Human	Inconvenient
Instinctive	Intention	Judgments	Just
Lazy	Maintain	Overripe	People
Person	Reasons	Same	Similar
Sources	Start	Stupid	Things
Think	Tree	Ugly	Understanding
Value	Want	Wants	Weak
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Compassion is the intention to think and act as if you are no more entitled to get what you want than anyone else is. This intention is based on the conscious understanding that everyone wants about the same things for about the same reasons. Almost all human desires arise from similar instinctive sources. If you maintain this understanding, arbitrary value judgments about inconvenient people start to fall away, like overripe fruit falling from a tree. The assertion that another person is bad, wrong, weak, lazy, ugly, or stupid is just a disguised assertion that you are more entitled to get what you want than he is. - Timothy Ray Miller