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.

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

Structure is something that calms our nature; we know this of toddlers.

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

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.

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.

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