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

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.

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.

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

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.

When we fulfill our function, which is to truly love ourselves and share love with others, then true happiness sets in.

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me..Phil 3:14

When you get lost in the flow of life, find yourself in the fortress of God!

Be thankful and joyful.Be content with life.Make the most of every situation.

Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.

He was in the right place. He was living his best life. How many other people in the multiverse could say that?

Life's full of chances to hurt yourself or someone else.

When cornered, a rattle snake can become so angry it's been known to bite itself, which is exactly how I feel in traffic and relationships.

The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.

It's so much easier to do it right than to do it wrong.