The kind of spirituality I value is one in which you get great joy out of contributing to life, not just sitting and meditating, although meditation is certainly valuable. But from meditation, from the resulting consciousness, I would like to see people in action creating the world they want to live in.

How I choose to look at any situation will greatly affect whether I have the power to change it or make matters worse.

If we want to be compassionate we must be conscious of the words we use. We must both speak and listen from the heart.

Be very slow to go into looking for solutions.

Never hear what a jackal-speaking person thinks, especially what they think about you.

Never connect yourself with the other person's pain. Just hear their need. Leave yourself out of the other person's feelings and needs.

You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.