Without being aware of it, you take many things as being your identity: your body, your race, your beliefs, your thoughts.

Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?

Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.

What would we have to hold in compassion to be at peace right now? What would we have to let go of to be at peace right now?

The questions asked at the end of lie are very simple ones: Did I love well? Did I love the people around me, my community, the earth, in a deep way? And perhaps, Did I live fully? Did I offer myself to life?

The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.

Compassion arises naturally as the quivering of the heart in the face of pain, ours and another's. True compassion is not limited by the separateness of pity, nor by the fear of being overwhelmed. When we come to rest in the great heart of compassion, we discover a capacity to bear witness to, suffer with, and hold dear with our own vulnerable heart the sorrows and beauties of the world.