You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience.

Compassion is a spiritual technology.

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.

Fear usually looks like anger.

Being intellectually hospitable is a virtue that I bring into the interview space.

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.

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