Fear usually looks like anger.

Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues.

If we cant face our losses, we cant be present either fully to everything that is. When people have cut off or not made peace with some part of themselves, they miss out on other aspects of life.

I dont accept the idea that there are two sides to any issue. I think that the middle ground is to be found within most of us.

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.

Compassion is a spiritual technology.

Humanity needs this technology as much as it needs all other technologies that have now connected us and set before us the terrifying and wondrous possibility of actually becoming one human race.