You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience..

Buddhist mindfulness is about the present, but I also think its about being real. Being awake to everything. Feeling like nothing can hurt you if you….

You are not going to be perfect every day. It’s about turning up the next day and doing it again..

I had been a journalist in Europe and then went to divinity school in the early 1990s, and came out as somebody who had the perspective of a journali….

Humanity needs this technology as much as it needs all other technologies that have now connected us and set before us the terrifying and wondrous p….

In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry.

How we carry what has gone wrong for us is essential to being at home in ourselves, and present to the world with all of its failings..

Compassion also brings us into the territory of mystery - encouraging us not just to see beauty, but perhaps also to look for the face of God in the ….

If we cant face our losses, we cant be present either fully to everything that is. When people have cut off or not made peace with some part of thems….

I dont accept the idea that there are two sides to any issue. I think that the middle ground is to be found within most of us..

Compassion is a spiritual technology..

What a liberating thing to realize that our problems are probably our richest sources for rising to the ultimate virtue of compassion..

If God is God, we cant be afraid of what we can learn..

Silence is an endangered quantity in our time... Silence, embraced, stuns with its presence, its pregnant reality—a reality that does not negate reas….

Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won….

Fear usually looks like anger..

Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it’s more of a cerebral ascent..

Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards to which we hold ourselves and others..

Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues..

For every shrill and violent voice that throws itself in front of microphones and cameras in the name of God, there are countless lives of gentleness….

Einstein believed deeply that science should transcend national and ethnic divisions. But he watched physicists and chemists become the purveyors of ….