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

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

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.

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

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.

I had been a journalist in Europe and then went to divinity school in the early 1990s, and came out as somebody who had the perspective of a journalist and was now also theologically educated.

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