Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

The work of your heart, the work of taking time, to listen, to help, is also your gift to the whole of the world

To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life

Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.

Where we tended to be judgmental, we became more judgmental of ourselves in our spiritual practice.

The Sufis have a saying: "Praise Allah, and tie your camel to a post." This brings together both parts of practice: pray, yes, but also make sure that you do what is necessary in the world.