The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.

But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.

When I got divorced, the first people I called were Nick Kroll and John Mulaney and T. J. Miller - all the pals.

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.

Jesus was not SELFLESS. He did not live as if ONLY other people counted. He knew his value and worth. He had friends. He asked people to help him. At the same time Jesus was not SELFISH. He did not live as if nobody counted. He gave his life out of love for others. From a place of loving union with his Father, Jesus had a mature, healthy 'true self.

As Parker Palmer said, "Self-care is never a selfish act—it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others. Anytime we can listen to true self and give it the care it requires, we do it not only for ourselves, but for the many others whose lives we touch.

Our relationship with God and relationship with others are two sides of the same coin.

By failing to let others be themselves before God and move at their own pace, we inevitably project onto them our own discomfort with their choice to live life differently than we do.

If you've opened your loving to God's love, you're helping people you don't know and have never seen.

Part of that likeness is to feel.

The degree to which you recognize and engage your own shadow is the degree to which you can free others to face theirs.

Let the person who cannot be alone beware of community. Let the person who is not in community beware of being alone."17