Do you understand non-duality?

If so, kindness is the proof. If you are lacking in compassion then that is proof that your understanding is intellectual. It shows that the ego idea (concept of separation) is still at work. The ego idea is the essence of violence. It is resistance against the flow of life and it is the very belief in a world apart from oneself. I am making no claims to be permanently free of ego. Sometimes it arises, other times it is absent. When it is absent, there is peace, no matter what is happening around one. When it is present, there is struggle. Seeing the ego as another arising of the divine energy is a way to be at peace with even this most difficult manifestation of life. Though it appears to indicate a distinct self, it, itself, is a selfless arising, from God/source/being like everything else.