Fear usually looks like anger.

Buddhist mindfulness is about the present, but I also think its about being real. Being awake to everything. Feeling like nothing can hurt you if you can look it straight on.

Depression can kill you. It can also be a spiritually enriching experience. It's really an important part of my theology now and my spirituality that life is not perfect, and I grew up wanting it to be and thinking that if it wasn't, I could make it that way, and I had to acknowledge that I had all kinds of flaws and sadnesses and problems.

What a liberating thing to realize that our problems are probably our richest sources for rising to the ultimate virtue of compassion.

[Kindness] is a most edifying form of instant gratification.

In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry

The things that go wrong for you have a lot of potential to become part of your gift to the world.