Conversations on Compassion: Amma @ Stanford University

2 June 2014 Amma participated in Stanford University's "Conversations on Compassion" series on Monday, answering questions posed by neurosurgeon Dr. James Doty, the founder and director of the university's Center for Compassion & Altruism Research & Education (CCARE). The hour-and-a-half-long dialogue took place in Stanford's 1700-seat Memorial Hall and was the most attended event in the series' history. http://www.amritapuri.org/17787/14sfo... "Compassion is the most important factor in our lives. It is the first step. If we take this first step courageously, without fear, then all of our decisions and subsequent actions and their results will have a special beauty, spontaneity and power. Human calculations may be wrong, but actions born of true compassion can never be wrong because compassion is the law of nature, the power of God, the heart of creation. If we tune the individual mind with compassion, then we, as individuals, are no longer really performing actions, but are merely allowing creation to act through us. And this is the power of compassion. In truth, the spiritual path both begins and ends with compassion."