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

Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others.

We believe that it takes a strong back and a soft front to face the world.

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.

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

We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude. When I return to Western culture after time in desert, mountain or forest, I discover how we have filled our world with a multiplicity of noises, a symphony of forgetfulness that keeps our won thoughts and realizations, feelings and intuitions out of audible range.

Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way.