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.

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.

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

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.

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.