Martin Lowenthal and Lar Short 1993 Opening the Heart of compassion: Transform Suffering Through Buddhist Psychology and Practice From the authors: "We have chosen to offer this amalgam of east and west, of modern and traditional, and of the ordinary and the sacred through teachings about the habits of mind that shape our experience of ourselves and of the world, which often results in us living in a world of pain. The path out of that suffering to freedom involves taking creative action that is guided by compassion. This compassion is developed through reflection upon the nature of our condition, and insight into our ways of operating as the source of possibilities for suffering or creative expression."