In regards to eating meat

[Tenet Nosce]

UAs you sit here, each seeker has the sorrows of unfulfilled hopes, expectations and love. Each feels the pang of suffering. And yet, each is still attempting to find solutions to the suffering rather than finding space and time within to allow each portion of experience, including suffering, to have a hospitable room to dwell in while it visits you.

... I actually take these things to heart and attempt to apply them into my life.

Q'uo is referring to our own personal suffering, which is catalyst. Not to the suffering of others, that we are contributing to and thus have the power to reduce or alleviate by choosing compassion.

I am speaking of our personal suffering about contributing to the suffering of others. Beyond that- yes compassion is a good and virtuous quality from which to make choices. However beyond compassion are also other qualities such as faith, love, and wisdom or joy. Honesty, forgiveness, mercy, patience, gratitude. There is a whole smorgasbord to choose from!

But even just considering compassion alone, everybody has their own idea about what that means, and even then their idea tends to change over time.