Become more accepting. With every interaction, surrender any tendency to judge another person. Pray for a more accepting heart.

It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.

I don't feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering.

Desperately seeking something is not what attracts it to us. When we dwell, in deep peace and kindness, whatever would add to our happiness just flows to our door.

I sometimes say to people who have life-challenging illnesses: "Right now you are tempted to think that if you were physically well you would be happy. But if that were true, everybody who is physically well would be happy."

Our thoughts about the future go far toward creating it; our minds and hears are like filaments taht connect today to tomorrow, they are conduits for either the status quo or the emergence of different, hopefully more loving, possibilities. How we think and how we behave determine where we are going

...available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy.