No Excuses
Oct 22, 2010 | Views: 326
Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you.
~ Mother Teresa
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Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you……well said by Mother Teresa. Helping one person may not change the whole world but it can change the world for one person. Well if we can help others in their times of need is the best gift to humanity. At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets in our lives. No matter how many people we could help, let no excuses coming across our path, do help them whatever we could .
May Mother Teresa quotes inspire us to get on a journey of selfless giving in order to make the world a better place .
Thank you Rinpoche for this inspiration quotes by mother Teresa.
Spend our time wisely,contemplate what is most important in life.Do whatever we can to help those in need help one at a time.
Mother Teresa’s quotes was well said and has help us to think deeply of the profound meaning of it.A very good advice from Mother Teresa to be compassionate, caring,loving and kind always.No excuse to be one.
Its a reminder for us to show empathy and kindness to others as they face struggles in life, no matter where and when.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing these beautiful and meaningful quotes by Mother Teresa.
We can spend our time Worrying about helping the entire nation and thinking how difficult that would be or we can just help one person. I think the latter is more productive. Yes, some people believe in thinking, planning and doing big but until the act is done, the thinking and planning has no results.
I don’t mean to say don’t think big. By all means please do. Think and go as big as you can possibly dream of but do not belittle what smaller actions can produce. Help one person at a time, doing and completing one thing at time can also adds up to doing a lot more than waiting to do that one big thing.
This is such a deep thought from Mother Teresa. It is true that when we help one, there will be one less suffering soul out there. I will try my best to help all that need my help in every way that I can. Doing this constantly, as I will definitely appreciate the help if I am in my down times as well.
I agree!
Very practical advice from this great lady. She is a bodhisattva no doubt , with never ending love for others 🙂
I look at that picture and I can feel the energy radiate right out of the photo. Almost brings me right to tears.
Compassion is the most precious and wonderful attrbute of humanity. Compassion is very nesessary in mankind and which can be developed. It is said that geniune compassion is based on a clear acceptance or recognition that others, like ourselves, want happiness and have the right to overcome sufferings. On that basis, one developes a kind of concern about others’ welfare, irrespective of one’s attitude to oneself. Likewise, as our Guru, Tsem Rinpoche, having suffered and realised what homeless, poverty, hunger, freezing cold, unloved and uncared for meant, was inspired to form Kechara Soup Kitchen(KSK) with a small group of closed friends in 2006. Initially with about 20 packets of cooked food they went round street to street and under bridges to search for the hungry and forgotten vagrants of Kuala Lumpur just to feed them! Today, KSK has expanded into a growing organisation with its own acquired building in the heart centre of KL, having volunteers from all walks of life and faith, and sponsors of food(vegetarian), snacks, fruits and bottles of drinking water for distribution to feed the hungry homeless and the urban poor everyweek, which averagely total to about 700 packs accordingly. Such is the display of what geniune compassion is all about as taught by our kind guru, the “Brainchild” for the formation and growth of what KSK is today to benefit all sentient beings!
It’s so humbling – Mother Teresa is truly a picture of “compassion in action”; not just thinking or talking about compassion. Thank you, Rinpochela – every time i get inspired by something on your blog, i appreciate your effort and wonderful skilful means to wake us up. “kam-sia che-che!”
I love this…
If you have the mind of kindness and compassion for sentient beings you will not be calculative in doing anything to relieve the sufferings of anyone even animals. Compassion can be first started at home with your family and your relatives and your pets. I think it is not easy to extend kindness to those outside initially without starting the habituation from your home. It is much easier if you are practicing Dharma. Like how Kechara started Kechara Soup Kitchen with only distribution a few packets of food to a few homeless people. This has extended to the distribution of 700 packets per time now. So there is no excuse where kindness is concerned. It is from your heart, enthusiasm and effort you will be able to do it.
so much love…