“We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything, than when we are at play.”
“We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find.”
“With the practice of meditation we can develop this ability to more fully love ourselves and to more consistently love others.”
“In this world, where we find ourselves, we need compassion more than anything, I think, or we are all alone.”
“Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.”
“Being both more systematically brutal than chimps and more empathetic than bonobos, we are by far the most bipolar ape. Our societies are never completely peaceful, never completely competitive, never ruled by sheer selfishness, and never perfectly moral.”