A Little Kindness
I have spent many hours catching insects in a cup and taking them outside. We can do that. We can change our relationship to other living creatures. This is not to suggest that the answers are always clear-cut and easy. If termites are eating up your house, what do you do? Do you say, "Be happy, be happy"? Or do you call the exterminator? Ethical decisions are not always easy. But we can become committed to training ourselves to look for alternatives to killing. We can practice not killing, and can take that practice further than we have.-- Joseph Goldstein, Transforming the Mind, Healing the World
