The light around someone who speaks truth, who consistently acts with compassion for all, even in great difficulty, is visible to all around them.

A second quality of mature sirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.

We need a repeated discipline, a genuine training, in order to let go of our old habits of mind and to find and sustain a new way of seeing.

We can bring a heart of understanding and compassion to a world that needs it so much.

...Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

There are many ways up the mountain and each of us must choose a practice that feels true to our heart.