Fear usually looks like anger.

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.

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

Compassion is a spiritual technology.

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

Einstein believed deeply that science should transcend national and ethnic divisions. But he watched physicists and chemists become the purveyors of weapons of mass destruction in the early 20th century.

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.