Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.

Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.

At the different stages of recognition, reflection, and redress, practicing compassion provides potentially world-saving opportunities which otherwise likely would not exist.

History, too, has a penchant for giving birth to itself over and over again, and those whom it appoints agents of change and progress do not always accept their destinies willingly.

Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.

The Universe said, ‘Let me show your soul something beautiful.

What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.

Making the choice to exercise compassion is an expression of Love for Humanity and Life itself.