Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.

It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.

Look into your own heart, discover what it is that gives you pain and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else.

Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He went around doing good and being compassionate.

Each of the world religions has its own particular genius, its own special insight into the nature and requirements of compassion, and has something unique to teach us.

I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.

Compassion is not an option. It's the key to our survival.

Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.

Religion isn’t about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. It’s about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness.

I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.

Surely it's better to love others, however messy and imperfect the involvement, than to allow one's capacity for love to harden.

There must be no final truths

A promotion is an illusionary solution out of an indebted employee’s pit of debt.

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

Mentoring is the cultivation of young adults, the tender caring for and nurturing of them so that they will grow, flourish, and be fruitful.

I opened my arms to embrace you, Never realizing when you glided into my prana, To be within me, To be the source of my energy.

None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.

In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.

The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble.

After my parents passed away - in 2000 and 2003 - I felt I could take the time to think about the past and imagine what it would have been like to be my grandmother.

Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive.