We think that accomplishing things will complete us, when it is experiencing life that will.

To journey without being changed, is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and to be transformed by the journeying is to be a pilgrim.

Essentially, the life of expression is the ongoing journey of how we heal each other... for by telling our stories and listening to the stories of others, we let out who we are and find ourselves in each other, and find that we are more together than alone.

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.

This is the ongoing purpose of full attention: to find a thousand ways to be pierced into wholeness.

Who's to say the effort to be real isn't the beginning of wings?

Tragedy stays alive by feeling what's been done to us, while peace comes alive by living with the results.