Too many times we insist on loving people the way we want to love them instead of the way they need to be loved.

My limitations make space for the gifts of other people. Without the grace of our limitations we would be isolated, dry, and insufferable creatures indeed.

To be enlightened is to know that heaven is not "coming." Heaven is here.

I do not believe that just because you're opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed. And why would I think that you don't? Because you don't want any tax money to go there. That's not pro-life. That's pro-birth. We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is.

A hard heart makes for hard judgments; a compassionate heart understands the humanity of the one we presume to judge.

Compassion for the other comes out of our ability to accept ourselves. Until we realize both our own weaknesses and our own privileges, we can never tolerate lack of status and depth of weakness in the other.

We don't change as we get older - we just get to be more of what we've always been.