Don't ever think compassion is weak. Compassion is about strength.

May I see my own limits with compassion, just as I view the limits of others.

All are interconnected...the environment; rights of the dying; care of caregivers; education and medical care for peoples of the Himalayas; prison work; those living on the margins of society, particularly kids.

The roots of all living things are tied together. Deep in the ground of being, they tangle and embrace. This understanding is expressed in the term nonduality. If we look deeply, we find that we do not have a separate self-identity, a self that does not include sun and wind, earth and water, creatures and plants, and one another.

Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created.

I am working on a technical paper on compassion. So I am reading everything I can on the subject, including my own mind and heart.

In accepting death as inevitable, we don't label it as a good thing or a bad thing. As one of my teachers once said to me, “Death happens. It is just death, and how we meet it is up to us.