Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way.

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.

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

And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.

Someone who seeks to travel the path of Allah should begin with a sound repentance from all his sins.

How many times could you give up on someone you loved?

One of the great things silence does, it gives us a new concept of God.

You might want to lie down," Magnus advised. "I find that it helps when the crushing sense of horrible realization sets in.

Unless there was a reason for me to stay.

Photography is truth.

Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge.

Life is pointless...and that is God's greatest gift.

Often parents have a great desire and hopes, and aspirations for their kids but they don't have any practical plans of action.