When you feel compassion, you dethrone yourself from the centre of the world.

I am continually trying to find meaning in the world. If we cannot find some ultimate significance or value in our lives, we fall very easily into despair.

When you feel compassion, you dethrone yourself from the centre of the world.

Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar.

God [is] not the exclusive property of any one tradition. The divine light [cannot] be confined to a single lamp, belonging to the East or the West, but enlightens all human beings.

Theologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosis, of self-emptying, is found in the life of God itself. They do not do this because it sounds edifying, but because this is the way that human nature seems to work. We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind.

...there is something wrong with any spirituality that does not inspire selfless concern for others