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

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

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

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

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….

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….

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

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 is a spiritual technology..

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..

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….

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

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..

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….

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

Fear usually looks like anger..

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….

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….

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 ….

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