" never seen anything so able to defuse a burst of violence or the spewing of hate or the indifference to those in pain than love shown in a kind word, gesture, stance, and presence. It is a way of being possible only in the present moment. Like the gentle rocking of a colicky baby, loving-kindness, as the homies say, “kicks in. "

― Gregory Boyle , Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship