We could say that compassion is the ultimate attitude of wealth: an anti-poverty attitude, a war on want. It contains all sorts of heroic, juicy, positive, visionary, expansive qualities. And it implies larger scale thinking, a freer and more expansive way of relating to yourself and the world.

Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism (ed. Shambhala Publications, 2010) - ISBN: 9780834821224