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"For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes."
- Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
This is shot of a design project for ME 325. Shown is a haptic device carrier that makes interacting in a virtual 3D environment easier and more comfortable for the wearer. This design was specifically user oriented, thus demonstrating compassion for a fellow engineer.
Contributing members to this project included:
John Dunham
Shane Pearson
Amanda Newendorp
Lucy (Ferneau) Smart
Zach Klenske
An art peice done by my mama...but i touched it up with photoshop to make it look darker and the colors stronger...it looks very different in reality...
The Arabic writing means love & compassion...
p. 322 in: The Quiver (1888) - An Illustrated Magazine. Sunday and General Reading. Cassell & Company. Ltd.
A local university student feeding stray cats on campus. Attitudes towards animals have greatly improved here over the last decade:)
Colour is a wonderful thing. Used by nature and humans, willing actions, pollinations and pre-determined responses. Where would we be without colour but forever stuck in the stark reality of the gray scale.
Originally posted here on May 17, 2006:
Yesterday afternoon when I was leaving work, I witnessed some kids harassing a homeless man standing on the corner asking for money. The parents were nearby, talking to the concierge of the hotel next to my building. I stopped and watched for a few seconds, and then quietly told the kids to leave the man alone. They turned towards me and began saying, "He's a crack addict, he's a loser, he lives on the sidewalk" and numerous other taunts.
The parents finally walked over to see what was going on, and asked me why I was talking to their children.
"Your children are harassing this man," I told them.
"That man is begging in the street to buy booze and drugs," they told me. "You're no better than him if you try to take up for him."
The whole scene angered and saddened me.
"First of all, why are you wasting time arguing with me instead of focusing on what was happening? Your children were harassing a man in the street who had done nothing to them. I witnessed the whole thing."
"Why don't you just move along, bitch, and not tell me how to raise my children? And why don't you just let all these losers move in with you if you love them so much?"
I just shook my head and walked away, feeling myself starting to cry. As recently as Monday night, I listened while Maya Angelou spoke of how proud she was of the residents of Houston for opening their doors and hearts to so many Katrina victims. Yesterday, I witnessed the opposite: total lack of compassion for a fellow human being.
What kind of example are we setting for our children when we teach them intolerance?
Logan, Utah.
Nathan Page, nurse's aide, of Eagle Pass, Maine is seen patiently feeding a nursing home inmate. While she tends to be difficult, he manages to calm her agitation at being confined.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (June 30, 2021) The United States Naval Academy welcomes the incoming 4th class midshipmen, or plebes, of the Class of 2025 during a two-day induction process. I-Day marks the beginning of a demanding six-week indoctrination period called Plebe Summer, intended to transition the candidates from civilian to military life. As the undergraduate college of our country's naval service, the Naval Academy prepares young men and women to become professional officers of competence, character, and compassion in the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. (U.S. Navy photo by Kenneth D. Aston Jr/Released)
© Saira Bhatti
"Listen with ears of tolerance, See through the eyes of compassion, Speak with the language of Love" ~Rumi
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (July 21, 2020) Midshipmen 4th Class, or plebes, from the United States Naval Academy Class of 2024 participate in swim training during Plebe Summer, a demanding indoctrination period intended to transition the candidates from civilian to military life. As the undergraduate college of our country's naval service, the Naval Academy prepares young men and women to become professional officers of competence, character, and compassion in the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. (U.S. Navy photo by Stacy Godfrey/Released)
Roger van der Weyden (ca. 1435): El descendimiento de la cruz / The deposition from the cross.
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Kuan Yin in my garden sending peaceful, happy Thanksgiving wishes to you..
Posted for Our Daily Challenge topic - 'Compassion.' I;m so sorry that I'm just barely visiting and leaving comments. The new format is so terrible, ugly and confusing. I'm still doing ODC's daily challenge rather than stopping taking and posting pix altogether.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Feb. 2, 2023) U.S. Naval Academy staff and guests prepare for ship selection night and await the arrival of the midshipmen from the Class of 2023, who will serve as surface warfare officers upon graduation and commissioning, select their first ship assignment at the academy’s annual Ship Selection Night in Alumni Hall. As the undergraduate college of our country's naval service, the Naval Academy prepares young men and women to become professional officers of competence, character, and compassion in the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. (U.S. Navy photo by Kenneth Aston Jr.)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (July 14, 2023) Midshipmen 4th Class, or plebes, of 13th & 14th company from the United States Naval Academy class of 2027 participate in swim 3 training during Plebe Summer, a demanding indoctrination period intended to transition the candidates from civilian to military life. As the undergraduate college of our country's naval service, the Naval Academy prepares young men and women to become professional officers of competence, character, and compassion in the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. (U.S. Navy photo by Kenneth D. Aston Jr.)
Act like the sun in love and compassion.
Act like a river in friendship and fraternity!
Act like the night in covering the faults of others!
Act like the soil in humility and selflessness
Act like dead one in anger and furry!
Either act in accordence with the way you look,
or look in accordance with the way you act!
RUMI
Karen Armstrong, in accepting her 2008 TED Prize, has two things to say that I find very important to me these days. One is that compassion as expressed by the "golden rule" is common across all the major religions. Two is that our modern conception of belief as applied to religion is quite likely flawed.
Belief, which we make such a fuss about today, is only a very recent religious enthusiasm. It surfaced only in the West in about the 17th century. The word belief, itself, originally meant to love; to prize; to hold dear. In the 17th century it narrowed its focus [...] to mean an intellectual ascent to a set of propositions. Credo -- [i.e.,] I believe -- it did not mean I accept certain creedal articles of faith. It meant "I commit myself. I engage myself."This trip I took last weekend to Tijuana to help with the building of homes there for families who need but can't afford them was, in part, a test of Ms. Armstrong's statement.[...] So, if religion is not about believing things, what is it about? What I've found across the board is that religion is about behaving differently. Instead of deciding whether or not you believe in God, first you do something -- you behave in a committed way and then you begin to understand the truths of religion. And religious doctrines are meant to be summons to action. You only understand them when you put them into practice. -- Karen Armstrong