"When we meet difficulty with a kind and loving heart, compassion naturally arises. Often easy to feel for others, self-directed compassion can get blocked by old belief patterns and cultural conditioning. However, self-compassion can be awakened through a few simple steps that echo the Four Noble Truths." - Lauri Glenn

"We aren't looking to get away from our personal lives [in this approach]... but we're given permission to bring what's alive in our lives into our meditation practice." - Linda Modaro

"It would be well if you directed your mind to the deathless element." - Venerable Sariputta, senior disciple of the Buddha

"The political problems that impede the evolution of international governance are rooted in human psychology - mainly in what is sometimes called "the psychology of tribalism." This psychology consists largely of cognitive biases, notably including confirmation bias and attribution error." - Robert Wright

"So much can go bongo tingo in conversations, what with misunderstandings and mixed intentions... and yet, so much can go right to the heart of the matter. Bringing our meditation sittings into a conversation with another person changes the conversation to a relationship - one of developing trust, care, and collaboration. The Dharma is between us." - Linda Modaro

"... the path is not about seeing something in particular; instead, it's about seeing clearly. And we have the potential to do that, a potential that has to be realized." - Ajahn Sucitto

"...seeing clearly is an ongoing balancing between seeing within a framework and seeing beyond a framework, between seeing with knowledge and seeing with wonder." - Howard Axelrod

"One benefit of a journaling practice is that it enables me to 'look upon' my thinking with a little more distance and objectivity. The activity of writing itself (a Yang sort of doing) brings a sense of order to the sometimes chaotic (Yin-like) dimensions of my consciousness."

According to Joseph Campbell, mythology concerns the cosmological, sociological, pedagogical, and mystical dimensions of life. "If the mystical dimension is not there, you don't have a mythology, you have an ideology (Campbell, Mythos)." Meditation is a ritualized application of mythical pedagogy to realize for oneself the mystical union with all of life.

"It's hard to build coherent international governance on a foundation of incoherent nations. An America lacking in cohesion, divided along red-blue lines, won't have the political will to do ambitious, politically difficult things. Such as: crafting and then participating in new forms of international cooperation designed to prevent things like pandemics, environmental calamities, and arms races in space or in bioweapons or in AI." - Robert Wright