Experiencing terrible pain opens our hearts and minds to express compassion for other people and communion with ourselves.

We must be able to love other people or forever endure the stain of disgraceful loneliness. By recognizing and expressing empathy for other people, we come to accept our own fallibility.

A person imbued with compassion and self-understanding can readily love oneself and exhibit endless sympathy for all people. A person who is unkind to their self can never transcend their corrupt barriers much less run into the world with open arms enthusiastically embracing humankind and all of nature with uninhibited friendliness and goodwill.

We are born with the innate capacity to express empathy. Experiencing our own cuts and bruises, encountering our own difficulties and disappointments, expands our cognitive world and rouses the universal desire to understand and comfort other people in pain.

We foster personal meaning out of life by exulting in all of nature, exhibiting a reverence for people, animals, plants, and by expressing compassion and sympathy for the entire community of life.

While a person can accept that seemingly impenetrable obstacles blocked other people’s path, each of us hurt in an exclusive manner, rendering us colorblind to the elongated bands of hard times that loom over other people’s promising zodiacs.

A child is not born with affection, adoration, and kindheartedness. A person accrues empathy and sympathy from experiencing our own pain.