Some things hurt, you know, and there's pain. But we magnify the suffering of it often, I think, by our reactions.

I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.

I prefer to think of faith, as Coleridge says of poetry, not as the taking up of belief but as "the willing suspension of disbelief". . . a willingness to be open, to explore, to investigate.

Its never too late to take a moment to look.

I will love myself as long as I never make a mistake.

In a situation of potential conflict, let compassion guide you.

Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us - in their depth, their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their experience of the power of compassion.