Cynicism is just an excuse for not helping.

Given how deeply the ways of war have penetrated our collective consciousness, it will take spiritual power to turn the issue around.

You can't remove that layer of pain by just saying, "Okay, I'm not going to wallow in it." The only way to remove that layer of pain is to face what it says and to recognize it as the look in the mirror that it is, reflecting the things you did that you wish you hadn't done and the things you didn't do that you wish you had done.

Any situation that pushes our buttons is a situation where we don't yet have the capacity to be unconditionally loving.

Where there is peace, there cannot be chaos; the two cannot coexist at the same time.

You don't want to try to protect yourself from the pain of a crisis. You want to learn everything you can from it.

Obviously, our political system is profoundly corrupted by, among other things, the influence of money. But, at a deeper level, the current structure is flawed because it looks to citizens for only two things - votes and money. I don't think we will see any healing until citizens are viewed in a whole new way.