The point of the spiritual revolution is not to become a good Buddhist, but to become a wise and compassionate human being, to awaken from our life o….

Sitting still is a pain in the ass..

The question is not whether you ever gave yourself to God, but whether you are His now..

As we learn about each other, so we learn about ourselves..

Our future experiences will be colored by the choices we make in the present..

The one is none other than the All, the All none other than the One..

Love doesn't exactly come with an off switch..

When you make a movie, you're spending a month of your life with someone and, down the line, you have to spend more months with them. It is this mini….

To be a good actor you really have to want to act first..

You can learn a lot of things from being in movies..

It is a feeble compassion that pulls up short where self-interest begins..

The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace..

Women like being kissed..

The beginning of mindful eating is the realization that eating meat is not about the meat-eater; it is about the animals who are tormented and killed..

When we bear witness, when we become the situation - homelessness, poverty, illness, violence, death - the right action arises by itself. We don't ha….

This same formula by which Buddhists so anti-rationalistically and anti-banausically describe the "relation" between soul and body also applies to th….

It's terrifying to have a voice right now. It's so terrifying, and it's so essential..

I can't tell how moving it is to open my email and see a picture of 1,500 Buddhist monks and nuns in the Himalayan kingdom of Ladakh forming a human ….

Farmed animals are not future Buddhas donating their flesh out of compassion for those of us who have developed a craving for it. They are victims of….

When virtuous mental attitudes, like mindfulness, respect, and compassion, are invoked to justify nonvirtuous acts like hunting, fishing, and eating ….

The Buddha's teaching leads us to the realization that we must always strive to harm no sentient being, human or nonhuman, whether or not it is in ou….