You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you

Those of us who have been blessed with worldly success have an even greater responsibility to make an impact with our time, talents, and resources;

You can't live a perfect day unless you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

If you believe in love, do you manifest it or just talk a lot? If you believe in compassion, in non-harming, in kindness, in wisdom, in generosity, in calmness, in solitude, in non-doing, in being even-handed and clear, do you manifest these qualities in your daily life? This is the level of intentionality which is required to keep your meditation practice vital

It is a beautiful thing when folks in poverty are no longer just a missions project but become genuine friends and family with whom we laugh, cry, dream and struggle.

I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.

When Christ said: "I was hungry and you fed me," he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness.

We can choose the way of compassion, the way of forgiveness, the way of generosity. Or we can choose other paths and those have very real consequences in the world. This is absolutely crucial.

How much better the world would be if we all gave gifts of understanding, and compassion, of service, and friendship, of kindness and gentleness.

There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship.