Compassion is something we can count on. Even if we face economic problems and our fortunes decline, we can still share our compassion with our fellow human beings. National and global economies are subject to many ups and downs, but through them all we can retain a compassionate attitude that will carry us through.

The more you nurture a feeling of loving kindness, the happier and calmer you will be.

Our ancient experience confirms at every point that everything is linked together, everything is inseparable.

Right from the moment of our birth, we are under the care and kindness of our parents, and then later on in our life when we are oppressed by sickness and become old, we are again dependent on the kindness of others. Since at the beginning and end of our lives we are so dependent on other's kindness, how can it be in the middle that we would neglect kindness towards others?

Better grounded emotionally through patience, we become stronger mentally and spiritually, and tend to be healthier physically.

When something needs to be done in the world to rectify the wrongs, if one is really concerned with benefiting others, one needs to be engaged, involved. This is action out of compassion.

I truly believe that compassion provides the basis of human survival.