The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.

Let me be really here, here in this place and this time where I am.

The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.

A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.

People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.

Our own pulse beats in every stranger's throat.

Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.