Truth is a seed hidden in the days until watered by what life brings us.

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.

We tend to make the thing in the way the way.

The point of experience is not to escape life but to live it.

The sun doesn't stop shining because some people are blind.

I was a very driven person, wanting to help and to do good, hopefully to write and teach in a meaningful way - wanting to make change. And I discovered humbly that life was changing me.

The fully engaged heart is the antibody for the infection of violence.