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Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion - towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that. I pray we may all challenge ourselves to delve into the deepest resources of our hearts to cultivate an atmosphere of understanding, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion. We are all in this life together.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

We must teach compassion and tolerance and encourage kindness, selflessness, and loving acceptance of all who are created in the image of God.

We are all human beings, part of the human race, and we need to be compassionate and giving and kind with one another.

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

By bringing nature into our lives, we invite humility.

What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.

With an undefended heart, we can fall in love with life over and over every day. We can become children of wonder, grateful to be walking on earth, grateful to belong with each other and to all of creation. We can find our true refuge in every moment, in every breath.

We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on.