When you look back at your own life, you see ... the sufferings you went through, each time you would have avoided it if you possibly could. And yet, when you look at the depth of your character now, isn't a part of that a product of those experiences? Weren't those experiences part of what created the depth of your inner being?

External silence can be the doorway to inner silence.

Compassion is the ability to see how it all is.

Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.

All you can do for another person is be an environment in which if they wanted to come up for air, they could.

The next message you need is always right where you are.

Caring is a reflex. Someone slips, your arm goes out. A car is in the ditch, you join others and push... You live, you help.