Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.

Feelings are self-justifying, with a set of perceptions and "proofs" all their own.

Green is a process, not a status. We need to think of 'green' as a verb, not an adjective.

Our passions, when well exercised, have wisdom; they guide our thinking, our values, our survival.

Simply paying attention allows us to build an emotional connection. Lacking attention, empathy hasn't a chance.

People who are optimistic see a failure as due to something that can be changed so that they can succeed next time around, while pessimists take the blame for the failure, ascribing it to some characteristic they are helpless to change.

While there I began to study the Asian religions as theories of mind.