You accept things as they are, not as you wish they were in this moment...The past is history, the future is a mystery, and this moment is a gift. That is why this moment is called the present.

Compassion is a living, breathing, organic emotion that vibrates through you and links you to those around you.

Self-knowledge is an anchor that makes unpredictability tolerable.

Unless there's a personal transformation, there can be no social transformation.

Find one thing every day to forgive the other person for. Don't let them know what it is...just forgive them and let it go.

For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it's a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself.

There are periods in life when you get caught up in the whole field of relativity and lose your moorings with the absolute.