All beings, including each one of us, enemy and friend alike, exist in patterns of mutuality, interconnectedness, co-responsibility and ultimately in unity.

Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us.

May I see my own limits with compassion, just as I view the limits of others.

Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others.

Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created.

Don't ever think compassion is weak. Compassion is about strength.

In being with dying, we arrive at a natural crucible of what it means to love and be loved. And we can ask ourselves this: Knowing that death is inevitable, what is most precious today?

We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival.

Catastrophe is the essence of the spiritual path, a series of breakdowns allowing us to discover the threads that weave all of life into a whole cloth.

We believe that it takes a strong back and a soft front to face the world.

Most of us are shrinking in the face of psycho-social and physical poisons, of the toxins of our world. But compassion, the generation of compassion, actually mobilizes our immunity.

Many perfumes promise to lure men to women. None of them smell of motherhood. None of them proclaim the wearer to be tidy, thrifty, and sensible.

No one can long worship God in spirit and in truth before the obligation to holy service becomes too strong to resist.

When you make 'The Daily Show', it's usually not for a laurel, it's for a dart.

Ethics is prescriptive and can change behavior, but usually only at the margins.

They only babble who practise not reflection

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Meet the world with the fullness of your being, and you shall meet God. Of you wish to believe, love.

If you looked at my feet, you would know for sure that I used to do ballet. They're completely destroyed and ripped up.

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue.

My lousy way of getting it done is better than your great way of not doing it.