Compassion has been advocated by all the great faiths because it has been found to be the safest and surest means of attaining enlightenment. It deth….

there is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death..

Yet a personal God can become a grave liability. He can be a mere idol carved in our own image, a projection of our limited needs, fears and desires.….

Surely it's better to love others, however messy and imperfect the involvement, than to allow one's capacity for love to harden..