passion
"Passion is like a light switch. When it is turned on it triggers a domino effect of other success characteristics"
"Compassion is like a baton in relay race. People will always pass it on. "
"A mind committed to compassion is like an overflowing reservoir - a constant source of energy, determination and kindness"
"At the beginning, COMPASSION is like a seed; in the middle, it is like water; at the end, it is like a ripened fruit. Achieving the result of full enlightenment is all due to COMPASSION."
"Compassion is like entering a gallery at an art museum and discovering you have entered an exhibit of cubist art and you are quite disoriented because you know nothing about it."
"Deep compassion is like water hitting a wall, it divides and goes around, or over, or under. It finds every crack and breach and keeps moving. Even if it's stopped for a time, it keeps flowing and eventually gains the strength to break through whatever is blocking it."
"Compassion is like a delicate plant that needs constant care and attention if it is to thrive."
"Meanwhile, the new producer asked me if I could do an edit of the script. Finally, something to sink my teeth into, so I waded in. I left the musical numbers in - not my problem - and also a lot of the somewhat specific stage directions, e.g. "Jesus breaks into a sweat". But I got the Ring Cycle down to about 2 hours; I honed the dialogue so that people spoke to each other more or less colloquially, rather than in slightly out of context Bible quotes; and I gave it some narrative drive so that one scene - and indeed the actions within each scene - should lead logically and naturally into the next. In many ways a passion play is like a requiem or a panto - you already know what elements go into it, the enjoyment is in seeing what the performers do with them - but even so it should all make sense as a whole."
"One of our church members remarked that The Passion Play is like a. "revival in the church." It does bring us together as God's people to sing."

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