COMPASSION

Seek the divine root of your soul which is
like that of your brother, uniting you with him,
and learn to be faithful to the sacred
discipline which teaches pure love.

Listen to your human self which tells you:
"I am everyone; all happiness and all human
suffering is reflected in my soul",
and always scorn all false zealotry.

The weak have created the absurd idea
that anger, not acts of love,
is the basis for our accomplishments,

but our mind tries in vain to cover
the light of our heart with lies, because
compassion always inspires the strong.