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.
Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it’s more of a cerebral ascent.
Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues.
[Kindness] is a most edifying form of instant gratification.
For every shrill and violent voice that throws itself in front of microphones and cameras in the name of God, there are countless lives of gentleness and good works who will not. We need to see and hear them, as well, to understand the whole story of religion in our world.