Fear usually looks like anger.

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

Structure is something that calms our nature; we know this of toddlers.

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.

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

Compassion also brings us into the territory of mystery - encouraging us not just to see beauty, but perhaps also to look for the face of God in the moment of suffering, in the face of a stranger, in the face of the vibrant religious other.

Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues.