From Contemplation to Radical Compassion

Our Beguiled by Beauty Series ends with a reaffirmation of our call to contemplative action in the world. The awareness of another's beauty is the seedling for the birth of compassion and justice. The celebration of this beauty of beings, their communities and ecosystems, cannot exist without mourning assaults on them. A contemplative life can empty us and ready us to become instruments of the Good. We will affirm our plans to continue practicing a way of beauty that makes life rich, courageous, generous, and joyful.