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

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

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.

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.

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

[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.