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.

You are not going to be perfect every day. It’s about turning up the next day and doing it again.

If God is God, we cant be afraid of what we can learn.

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

Silence is an endangered quantity in our time... Silence, embraced, stuns with its presence, its pregnant reality—a reality that does not negate reason and argument, but puts them in their place.

Compassion is a spiritual technology.

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.