Structure is something that calms our nature; we know this of toddlers.
Silence is an endangered quantity in our time… Silence, embraced, stuns with its presence, its pregnant reality—a reality that does not negate reason and argument, but puts them in their place.
Fear usually looks like anger.
Einstein believed deeply that science should transcend national and ethnic divisions. But he watched physicists and chemists become the purveyors of weapons of mass destruction in the early 20th century.
Buddhist mindfulness is about the present, but I also think its about being real. Being awake to everything. Feeling like nothing can hurt you if you can look it straight on.
Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it’s more of a cerebral ascent.
[Kindness] is a most edifying form of instant gratification.
Being intellectually hospitable is a virtue that I bring into the interview space.
You can disagree with another person’s opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can’t disagree with their experience.
Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards to which we hold ourselves and others.
Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.
If we cant face our losses, we cant be present either fully to everything that is. When people have cut off or not made peace with some part of themselves, they miss out on other aspects of life.