When we walk slowly, the world can fully appear. Not only are the creatures not frightened away by our haste or aggression, but the fine detail of fern and flower, or devastation and disruption, becomes visible. Many of us hurry along because we do not want to see what is really going on in and around us. We are afraid to let our senses touch the body of suffering or the body of beauty

Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us.

Cease consuming, practice generosity.

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

How about Burma, Somalia, Afghanistan, Libya, our streets, our neighborhoods, our own minds. We don't have to look far - and we should look far as well.

Don't ever think compassion is weak. Compassion is about strength.

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.