Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all living things which are all part of one another and involved in one another.
~ Thomas Merton
When I retreat at home, I am alone in silence. But I am also with thousands of others around the world, sitting quietly, all of us bonded together in our effort, our solitude, and our prayers... We are opening our hearts, alone but all-one, joining others throughout the centuries in timeless realms.