Compassion Is Not An Option. It's The

Compassion Is Not A Popular Virtue

Nirvana Is Something Within You. It Is Not An External Reality. No God Thunders Down From The Mountaintop. Just As The Great Mystics In The Christian, Jewish And Muslim Faiths All Discovered, God Is Within The Self. God Is Virtually Inseparable From Ourselves.

When The Horror Recedes And The World Resumes Its Normal Shape, You Cannot Forget It. You Have Seen What Is Really There, The Empty Horror That Exists When The Consoling Illusion Of Our Mundane Experience Is Stripped Away, So You Can Never Respond To The World In Quite The Same Way Again.

Here In America, Religious People Often Prefer To Be Right Rather Than Compassionate. They've Lost The Axial Age Vision Of Concern For Everybody.

If Professional Religious Leaders Can [no Longer] Instruct..., Our Artists And Creative Writers Can Perhaps Step Into This Priestly Role And Bring Fresh Insight To Our Lost And Damaged World.