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….

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 ….

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..

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..

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

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..

Being intellectually hospitable is a virtue that I bring into the interview space..

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

[Kindness] is a most edifying form of instant gratification..

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

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

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….

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

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….

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….

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….

The things that go wrong for you have a lot of potential to become part of your gift to the world..

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….