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Compassion Totters on Friday the 13th
Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the...
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The Well of Compassion is Full of Emotion
When we get to the core of any emotion, even anger, we discover a wakeful energy free of drama, unattached to any situation. We have come to the well of compassion into which all emotion empties...
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A Small World It Is
Having “virtual” access to one another–day and night–leaves little doubt how small the world really is. We are ever connected. That may have always been an issue as even the 19th century romantic...
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Revolutionary Acts
Awareness. Compassion. Equanimity. Loving-kindness. These are revolutionary acts. Their endgame is peace. Their leitmotif, trust that we will do what is required. Just as peace is available to us in...
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No Ground Beneath My Feet
I wonder how many times letting go is accepting what has already gone. When reading a book, I have been known to pause at the end of a chapter. I like to sit with good writing and let it wash over me....
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One Long Moment
Acceptance is a lifetime practice–one long moment–less about events and more about impermanence. I know the drill. Everything is going fine, life is good, and in a nanosecond, the entire landscape...
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Who Has the Power?
Silence is a response, deafening. It fells the tree in the forest. It may be centuries before anyone even notices, as no one heard the fall. When white supremacists march in the streets but no one...
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An Ounce of Compassion
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object (Albert Camus). Mount Rainier Len Huber Photo I. An ounce of compassion is all I need. While...
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A Country of Compassion, If We Can Keep It
In what now feels like a year that never was, I drafted a new year’s blog post. But then it wasn’t a new year anymore but more of 2020, albeit a bridge too far. Soon, 2021 overshadowed almost every...
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A Murderer Among Us
A murderer lives in my apartment complex and has for the last eight years. Marie stomped her 82-year-old mother to death, after throwing her down the stairs. Marie then encircled her mother’s body with...
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