But compassion is a deeper thing that waits beyond the tension of choosing sides. Compassion, in practice, does not require us to give up the truth of what we feel or the truth of our reality. Nor does it allow us to minimize the humanity of those who hurt us. Rather, we are asked to know ourselves enough that we can stay open to the truth of others, even when their truth or their inability to live up to their truth has hurt us.

My friends are the beings through whom God loves me.

To love by admitting our connection to everything is how we stay well.

Meditation, in all its forms and traditions, is an invitation to listen, to open, to quietly enlist the courage to be touched and formed by life.

The life of expression is the tuning fork by which we find our way to the sacred.

Live loud enough in your heart and there is no need to speak.

A love astounds us or a pain consumes us and we forget that we glow on our own.