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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.