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

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

The things that go wrong for you have a lot of potential to become part of your gift to the world.

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.

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.

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.