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I admit I have been surprised that no one mentioned Martin Luther King today even the media other than NPR hasnt really said much ( maybe TV has) I am talking radio. Any way 40 yrs ago he was murdered. And so I spent some time tonight reflecting on the speeches of the man and listened to several on utube. Was so deeply touched and once again mesmerized by so many of his words. The hope ,quit smoking now, the possibility. And than I listed to his last speech, His I have been to the mountaintop I have seen the promised land speech given the day before his death and I sat in silence as those words reeled around me. He knew, as so many of us know when finality is in our lives. marriage ending, , a job about to be lost and our own death.. If you have never heard one of his speeches , do yourself a favor and listen to one. If you are old enough to remember the man , you might find the same level of awe listening to him speak again as I have this evening. and as I do not believe in accidents, it was doubly interesting to me to open up one of my daily reads after having listened to the speech and read the below.In honor and memory of Doctor King and his lesson of peace and compassion I share.April 5Visualize someone to whom you feel very close, particularly someone who is suffering and in pain. As you breathe in, imagine you take in all their suffering and pain with compassion, and as you breathe out, send your warmth,Herbal cigarettes, healing, love, joy, and happiness streaming out to them.Now, gradually widen the circle of your compassion to embrace first other people to whom you also feel very close, then to those about whom you feel indifferent, then to those whom you dislike or have difficulty with, then even to those whom you feel are actively monstrous and cruel. Allow your compassion to become universal, and to enfold in its embrace all sentient beings, and all beings, in fact, without any exception.