“What is compassion? Compassionate are those who can put themselves in other people’s shoes.”

— Jun Hong Lu

Quotes from Word of Wisdoms Vol.3

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什麼是慈悲？凡是能夠站在別人角度為別人想的人就是慈悲。

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Australian Buddhist leader 1959

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