But compassion is a deeper thing that waits beyond the tension of choosing sides. Compassion, in practice, does not require us to give up the truth of what we feel or the truth of our reality. Nor does it allow us to minimize the humanity of those who hurt us. Rather, we are asked to know ourselves enough that we can stay open to the truth of others, even when their truth or their inability to live up to their truth has hurt us.

A successful creative expression is one in which the person who has expressed it was transformed for having encountered it

The real challenge is to remember to see clearly when everything's flying around us and we're wrapped up in our [emotional] wounds and traumas.

The practice of listening is one of the most mysterious, luminous, and challenging art forms on Earth.

Perhaps the hardest thing I've learned, and still struggle with, is that I don't have to be finished in order to be whole.

To distance ourselves from our experience makes our feelings a liability, while staying in conversation with our experience makes our feelings a resource.

A love astounds us or a pain consumes us and we forget that we glow on our own.