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

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.

If we cant face our losses, we cant be present either fully to everything that is. When people have cut off or not made peace with some part of themselves, they miss out on other aspects of life.

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

Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards to which we hold ourselves and others.

In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry

Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it’s more of a cerebral ascent.