[Kaz] is a great scholar, very funny - a true man of no rank!

All are interconnected...the environment; rights of the dying; care of caregivers; education and medical care for peoples of the Himalayas; prison work; those living on the margins of society, particularly kids.

Buddhist practice is the grounding for this work, this life, this way.

Catastrophe is the essence of the spiritual path, a series of breakdowns allowing us to discover the threads that weave all of life into a whole cloth.

I am working on a technical paper on compassion. So I am reading everything I can on the subject, including my own mind and heart.

I believe that women and girls today have to partner in a powerful way with men - with their fathers, with their sons, with their brothers, with the plumbers, the road builders, the caregivers, the doctors, the lawyers, with our president and with all beings.

When we have disorderly lives, it makes it difficult for our minds to be orderly and for us to be at ease with disorder.