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“Living systems evolve in complexity, flexibility, and intelligence through interaction with each other. These interactions require openness and vulnerability in order to process the flow-through of energy and information, bringing new responses and possibilities into play.”

“In acknowledging our pain for the world, we return once more to the original meaning of compassion: “to suffer with.” Suffering with our world, we are drawn into the cauldron of compassion. It awaits us, and it is there that we can reconnect with our roots and our power.”

“if you’re afraid to get close to the pain of our world, you’ll be distanced from its joy as well.”

“As open, self-organizing systems, our very breathing, acting, and thinking arise in interaction with our shared world through the currents of matter, energy, and information that move through us. In the web of relationships that sustain these activities, there is no line of demarcation between self and other.”

“The sorrow and rage you feel is a measure of your humanity and your evolutionary maturity. As your heart breaks open, there will be room for the world to heal.”

“Radical compassion works to impart care, exchange feeling, transmit understanding, embolden vulnerability, and fortify solidarity across circumstantial, sociocultural, phenomenological, and ontological chasms in the interest of mutual liberation.
It persists even and especially toward beings who are the objects of contempt and condemnation from dominant value systems.”

“As doer and deed are interconnected, as our own thoughts and actions are modified, so are our objectives. […]
Value is intrinsic to each act because action (karma) is what we are and what we become. […]
the goals we pursue are not distant from us in time or space, but present realities, unfolding out of the core of our existence and capable of transforming in the moment.”

“Instead of being considered a necessary evil to which one is condemned, work is a vehicle for the creation and expression of our deepest values”