This moment’s happenings…healing, meditation & action

Events
Wednesday Virtual Zazen
Nov 20
Wednesday Virtual Zazen

Virtual zen meditation is offered at 8 p.m., Pacific time for those who have a practice and would enjoy having a regular place and time to sit in silence, dissolve the day’s energy into a time of transition to rest, a release whatever needs to be let go for now. The 30-minute, silent meditation in whatever form fits the practitioner, offers a chance to sit in community, no matter the time zone.

Healing Circle & Meditation
Nov 21
Healing Circle & Meditation

At the Pacific Unitarian Church, join an in-person healing circle and experience quiet meditation. Participants meet Thursdays twice a month from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 at the Pacific Unitarian Church. If you wish to participate, email info@gocompassion.org and subscribe to PUC newsletter for weekly updates: admin@pacificunitarian.org

Supply delivery to Tijuana Sanctuary
Nov 23
Supply delivery to Tijuana Sanctuary

Pausing our monthly delivery to the sanctuary in Mexico that has been delivering clothing, household items, and medicines. Funds to cover costs of transport and support for food purchases have run out. In October, we will request support again through a year-end outreach to donors both individual and institutional. If you would like to donate funds, please feel free to use the “DONATE” button on this site and if time allows, email for details at info@GoCompassion.org

Reflect and Re-set for 2025
Dec 8
Reflect and Re-set for 2025

Designed to provide a spacious moment to re-set and learn personal care practices. The beginning of a new cycle upon us, this time is reserved for guests to set and re-set for the new year and beyond. For details and to register, contact: info@gocompassion.org

How can we welcome beauty in this world?

“There is beauty everywhere I look.”

Pastor Gustavo, Sanctuary project, Tijuana, Mexico

Along the way

Blog
Generosity
Generosity

One day, if you are lucky, you will have a chance to visit this place - they call it Ciudad de Dios - the City of God. If you believe there is a god, or even if you don't - this is what that spirit would look like among human beings.

To Bloom
To Bloom

The joy of watching the rununcla and beach rose and glads in full bloom is hard to explain in words. It's a feeling that raises the level of energy as the flowers just do what flowers are supposed to do.

Circles
Circles

Circles are our teacher - in them, we are reminded of the infinite, there is no coming and going, and that all things are interconnected.

Getting Better
Getting Better

And every generation believes they have confronted the most extreme that a world might produce - for good and no so good. But in this moment, it seems the thing that is different is that we really need to find a way to get better at being who we were meant to be – each one of us.

Next
Next

There is something awaiting our arrival to the next place and we have no idea what that something may be - heaven, hell, darkness, light - we can't really know. What we can know is what is happening now, and we can recognize that this is the material that we have to work with in getting ourselves to realize our best moments and selves.

Connection
Connection

We live in a time when more connection would help the world get through a very difficult period of history. This is a time when the dis-connects have made it easier not to recognize one another, hence so many cries for "being seen" and "belonging."

What magic happens “Along the Way”? Follow our blog to find out.

Compassion is…

  • "Compassion is how we care for ourselves and others."

    Shannon Morton, Founder Black Women Lead

  • "Compassion is a feeling of deep sympathy and caring for others who are suffering or in need. It is a natural human emotion that can motivate us to help others and bring about positive change in the world. Compassion involves not only feeling for someone but also taking action to alleviate their suffering and support them in their time of need."

    Tim Kornegay, Coalition Director, Live Free CA

  • "Compassion is why we do anything. A smile and a hurt. I want to know you, to know that feeling. To know what that's like and then be moved by it to act (together with).

    Danny Park, Skid Row People’s Market

  • “Compassion is love in action. Compassion is refusing to become hard-hearted, and to still look at life, as it truly is. Facing truth with love."

    Susan Grelock-Yusem, Commonweal

  • “Compassion is belonging and seeing life in this world as a selfless effort to bask in the essence of joy. Knowing that life is beyond one’s own reach, but conquered through collective alignment - of humble human spirit and natural energy!”

    Jabar Stroud, Hike to Yoga

  • “Compassion is our teacher. A deep lesson arises out of a compassionate and loving heart: be open, stay open; be kind, stay kind. A pastor in a poor canyon, a young person seeking to be educated, a parent searching for safety for children. These are the beings who animate the phenomenon of migration, in all its complexity. ".”

    Angela Oh, GoCompassion

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