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Check out all our videos. on the Video page. We have videos on meditation, on compassion, on life issues, and videos for children.

Here is our 'annagram video' for February - Go to Sleep Easily

And our meditation video is - Your Path Through the Sky Leaves No Trace

Our Kid's Video is Pete's Rescue

The next Compassion Works session is at Fletcher Library on February 2 at 6 and the next at St. Margaret's Church at 1 on February 21. These are contemplative, one hour sessions open to everyone - new or experienced meditators - where we simply rest in compassion with simple reminders.

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Welcome to February 2012

Here we are in the heart of winter, some of you living with snow piled all around, and most of us cold! Then, there are those few of you enjoying balmy ocean breezes and palm trees in your tropical paradise.

But then, given our environmental circumstances whatever they may be, we create our own reality within them. Some of us tanning on the beach may be miserably obsessing on some challenges and another one of us skidding along an icy highway is humming a happy tune. We create our own reality from our thoughts and all our inner drives, patterns, dramas and physiology despite the challenges or gifts around us.

It is very easy to place the responsibility for our pain and pleasures on all that is external. We look at what is going on around us or what others do or do not do to us and say -They (that) made me feel this way! But that pronouncement will always lead us astray and away from an opportunity to know our self.

Best is to be aware of all that is within that stirs and soothes us. Best is to be aware of the many levels of our own mind, our physiology, karma, and the life we have created that, all together, contributes to how we perceive the next arising in our world.

We pay a price when we don't stay sensitive and tuned in to all these inner whispers. One price we pay is in loosing access to our compassion. Compassion best arises when we know without a doubt that there are no villains. When we ignore the deep messages from our physiological and emotional selves as to how we are creating our world, we often blame others for our pain and suffering. But when we tune in to the deeply relevant messages about what we need and how to best live our life, we hear our inner wisdom urging us to move forward with the next word and action.

We know that this life is fully our responsibility and no one else makes us happy or sad. From that vast view, we can fully offer compassion to all beings everywhere instead of hatred. Living in awareness, we are able to make the most compassionate decisions for our self and all those around us.

Thank you from Compassion Works for All for all that you do to benefit all beings everywhere.