"Have you given up on yourself, peace, trust or faith?" I have suffered in this way. I had been living a life of quiet desperation, depression, and destruction. Due to my self sabotaging ways my marriage had ended.

Many times, my reputation as a successful writer and speaker felt like a lie. I had succumbed to self-destructive behaviour until I found and applied the antidote.

There is a solution to all suffering and the only way to discover it is by passing through it. Not conquer it, not fight, not crush but embrace it. That means to be in a state of compassion.

A non-struggling, peaceful mind is a possibility when we bring compassion into our existence. Think about it why would Stanford University's set up a Centre for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education, there must be something extraordinarily amazing about compassion. Compassion is the key as it encompasses intelligence, conscious communication and emotional wisdom.

In the teachings of the four noble truth and my world "walk the path "translates into “Compassion”, not apathy or sympathy or empathy. Compassion is the solution. Ask yourself the question are you willing to take the hand of compassion for yourself and others whenever you encounter suffering?

I create this course, dear learner, to serve another who is feeling uncertain, scared or lost. The course is an offering with my love and absolute sincere compassion. I know how deeply it can hurt and how liberating (and beautiful) it can feel when you can heal yourself and serve others. This is not a course about what you should do. It is a course about loving your own life, being authentic and joyful. It is about moving from surviving towards 'striving and thriving'.

Compassion truly is the antidote to depression, desperation and destruction.