Nothing good comes out of depression..

I observe a lot. I see a lot around me..

Weakness is something we don't like to admit we have. We hold it against people, until we experience it, and then we feel more compassion for it..

When you can't see yourself objectively, you won't see anyone else objectively, either..

All meditation must begin with arousing deep compassion. Whatever one does must emerge from an attitude of love and benefitting others..

The less seriously you take yourself, the better work you're going to do..

I do consider myself as being French, I suppose..

The gardener knows how to turn garbage into compost. Therefore our anger, sadness, and fear is the best compost for our compassion..

I'm not cutthroat. I'm Midwestern..

You love me?” … “Yes. More than life..

You can only control what you can control..

Sociopath is a word that has sort of become shorthand for psychopath and there's a distinct difference, it's interesting if you look it up. Sociopath….

Don't talk yourself into not being you..

I live to serve. except the part about living....

We never are definitely right, we can only be sure we are wrong..

That's the thing about faith. It works..

You have to learn to interrupt because you aren't going to get called on..

Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality a….

It is much more rewarding to do more with less..

And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves..

I tend to stay away from the comics..