NEVER GIVE UP

No matter what is going on
NEVER GIVE UP.
Develop the Heart.

Too much energy in your country
Is spent developing the Mind
instead of the Heart.

DEVELOP THE HEART.
Be compassionate
Not just to your friends
But to everyone.

BE COMPASSIONATE
Work for peace
In your heart and in the world.

WORK FOR PEACE
And I say again
Never give up
No matter what is happening.
No matter what is going on around you,
NEVER GIVE UP.

- H.H. The Dalai Lama

(Message given to Ron Whitehead, April 94 to share with 300 poets, musicians plus their audience, young people at RANT for the literary renaissance's 48 hour non-stop music and poetry insomniacathon to kick off New York University 50 year celebration held in New York City, May 1994)