One reason it rarely occurs to us that people are doing the best they know how to do in any given moment is because when we get negative over their behavior we don't know any better than to blame them for how we feel.

Self-realization author Guy Finley explains in this short talk that happier, healthier and brighter relationships with others become possible when we begin to let go of painful grudges and resentments within ourselves.

In any relationship . . . the one who is hurt most by the absence of compassion is the one in whom compassion is absent.

The speed with which we are ready to "jump" on others for their missteps, is the rush of the false self racing to escape seeing its own limitations by attacking others for the same.

The more time we spend considering the shortcomings of others, the smaller a person we become.

One reason that judging others so appeals to the self that sits in such judgment of them . . . is because the comfort found in sentencing others for their "defects" serves to convince us of our perfection.

Here’s why learning compassion for another – putting yourself in his or her "shoes" -- is a good idea: not only is it likely that your paths will cross again but, odds are, next time round you will be the one walking in their footsteps.