When we have disorderly lives, it makes it difficult for our minds to be orderly and for us to be at ease with disorder.

Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us.

May I see my own limits with compassion, just as I view the limits of others.

Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others.

Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created.

Don't ever think compassion is weak. Compassion is about strength.

In being with dying, we arrive at a natural crucible of what it means to love and be loved. And we can ask ourselves this: Knowing that death is inevitable, what is most precious today?

We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival.

Catastrophe is the essence of the spiritual path, a series of breakdowns allowing us to discover the threads that weave all of life into a whole cloth.

We believe that it takes a strong back and a soft front to face the world.

All beings, including each one of us, enemy and friend alike, exist in patterns of mutuality, interconnectedness, co-responsibility and ultimately in unity.

Dignity impacts the quality of your external world in your relationships, communications, and interactions.

I was quite pleased that Prince Philip didn't say anything like, I hate queers! He was quite well behaved.

I think it's interesting that women, by nature, are way more conflicted than men.

Never make a major decision based solely on money.

Because mountains are high and broad, the way of riding the clouds is always reached in the mountains; the inconceivable power of soaring in the wind comes freely from the mountains

There is a place that you are to fill and no one else can fill, something you are to do, which no one else can do.

America needs to follow the policies it has introduced in Germany. We have to go through a certain de-Nazification process.

Time to the face the music.

A villain who shares one's guilt is inevitably more attractive than a hero convinced of one's innocence.

There is no other planning for freedom and general welfare than to let the market system work.