COMPASSION

When we practice compassion we
practice reducing unnecessary suffering
for ourselves and each other.

Offered through the unclenched jaw

offered through a private and gentle intimacy

offered through the relinquishment of our expectations.

We learn to touch the timeless, weightless,
oceanic feeling

to which all of life belongs.

We tenderly return to ourselves, again and again
and forgive ourselves for forgetting that

without love
life is just doing time

and without kindness
there will always be too much of it.

COMPASSION

When we practice compassion we practice reducing unnecessary suffering for ourselves and each other.

Offered through the unclenched jaw

offered through a private and gentle intimacy

offered through the relinquishment of our expectations.

We learn to touch the timeless, weightless, oceanic feeling to which all of life belongs.

We tenderly return to ourselves, again and again
and forgive ourselves for forgetting that

without love
life is just doing time

and without kindness
there will always be too much of it.