All True Religion Starts From Compassion.

(Some kind souls came to seek compassion for others at my door.)

There is no substitute for a direct concern for other people as the basis of morality.

- Thomas Nagel


Being religious without being compassionate is just following a ritual.

- Ghostwise

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Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.

- Arnold Toynbee


If you've compassion, rest assure. You've feelings for others beside yourself.

- Ghostwise

The Pearl,

(Last night I stayed in a hotel called Pearl View looking across at Penang, our "Pearl Of The Orient". Today's post is about pearl.)

“Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase”

- John Balguy


It is said the best pearl is produced in a calm sea.

- Ghostwise

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“In the town they tell the story of the great pearl—how it was found and how it was lost again. They tell of Kino, the fisherman, and of his wife, Juana, and of the baby, Coyotito. And because the story has been told so often, it has taken root in every man’s mind. And, as with all retold tales that are in people’s hearts, there are only good and bad things and black and white things and good and evil things and no in-between anywhere."

“If this story is a parable, perhaps everyone takes his own meaning from it and reads his own life into it..."

- John Steinbeck ("The Pearl")


If you found a pearl of great value and thought it a curse of bad luck, would you throw it back into the sea?

- Ghostwise