Honour your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the Lord your God gives you.
One should not injure, subjugate, enslave, torture, or kill any animal, living being, organism, or sentient being. Just as suffering is painful to you, in the same way it is painful, disquieting and terrifying to all animals, living beings, organisms and sentient beings.
There are three ways of handling anger: By expression, by suppression and by forgiveness. The right way to overcome anger is by forgiveness.
Compassion is fellow feeling or sorrow for the sufferings of another. Compassion opens the door for freedom and expands the heart. It melts the hardened and makes people as soft as butter.
Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
