Compassion starts with making friends with ourselves.
If you work with your mind, that will alleviate all the suffering that seems to come from the outside.
I'm here to tell you that the path to peace is right there, when you want to get away.
Compassionate action involves working with ourselves as much as working with others.
Ego is like a room of your own, a room with a view with the temperature and the smells and the music that you like. You want it your own way. You'd just like to have a little peace, you'd like to have a little happiness, you know, just gimme a break.
The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are.