A message from the Dalai Lama-- words worth contemplating..... 
Dear friends around the world, 
The events of this day cause every thinking person to 
stop their daily lives, whatever is going on in them, 
and to ponder deeply the larger questions of life. We 
search again for not only the meaning of life, but the 
purpose of our individual and collective 
experience as we have created it-and we look earnestly 
for ways in which we might recreate ourselves anew as a human species, so 
that we will never treat each other this way again. 
The hour has come for us to demonstrate at the highest 
level our most extraordinary thought about Who We 
Really Are. 
There are two possible responses to what has occurred 
today. The first comes from love, the second from 
fear. If we come from fear we may panic and do 
things-as individuals and as 
nations-that could only cause further damage. If we 
come from love we will find refuge and strength, even 
as we provide it to others. 
This is the moment of your ministry. This is the time 
of teaching. What you teach at this time, through your 
every word and action right now, 
will remain as indelible lessons in the hearts and 
minds of those whose lives you touch, both now, and 
for years to come. We will set the course for 
tomorrow, today. At this hour. In this moment. 
Let us seek not to pinpoint blame, but to pinpoint 
cause. Unless we take this time to look at the cause 
of our experience, we will never remove ourselves from 
the experiences it creates. Instead, we will forever 
live in fear of retribution from those within the 
human family who feel aggrieved, and, likewise, seek 
retribution from them. 
To us the reasons are clear. We have not learned the 
most basic human lessons. We have not remembered the 
most basic human truths. We have not understood the 
most basic spiritual wisdom. In short, we have not 
been listening to God, and because we have not, we 
watch ourselves do ungodly things. 
The message we hear from all sources of truth is 
clear: We are all one. That is a message the human 
race has largely ignored. Forgetting this 
truth is the only cause of hatred and war, and the way 
to remember is simple: Love, this and every moment. If 
we could love even those who have attacked us, and 
seek to understand why they have done so, what then 
would be our response? Yet if we meet negativity with 
negativity, rage with rage, attack with attack, what 
then will be the outcome? 
These are the questions that are placed before the 
human race today. They are questions that we have 
failed to answer for thousands of years. 
Failure to answer them now could eliminate the need to 
answer them at all. 
If we want the beauty of the world that we have 
co-created to be experienced by our children and our 
children's children, we will have to become spiritual 
activists right here, right now, and cause that to 
happen. We must choose to be at cause in the matter. 
So, talk with God today. Ask God for help, for counsel 
and advice, for insight and for strength and for inner 
peace and for deep wisdom. Ask 
God on this day to show us how to show up in the world 
in a way that will cause the world itself to change. 
And join all those people around 
the world who are praying right now, adding your Light 
to the Light that dispells all fear. That is the 
challenge that is placed before every thinking person 
today. 
Today the human soul asks the question: What can I do 
to preserve the beauty and the wonder of our world and 
to eliminate the anger and hatred-and the disparity 
that inevitably causes it - 
in that part of the world which I touch? Please seek 
to answer that question today, with all the 
magnificence that is You. What can you do TODAY...this 
very moment? 
A central teaching in most spiritual traditions is: 
What you wish to experience, provide for another. 
Look to see, now, what it is you wish to experience-in 
your own life, and in the world. Then see if there is 
another for whom you may be the source of that. If you 
wish to experience peace, provide peace for another. 
If you wish to know that you are safe, cause another 
to know that they are safe. If you wish to better 
understand seemingly incomprehensible things, help 
another to better understand. If you wish to heal your 
own sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness or 
anger of another. 
Those others are waiting for you now. They are looking 
to you for guidance, for help, for courage, for 
strength, for understanding, and for assurance at this 
hour. Most of all, they are looking to you for love. 
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. 
Dalai Lama