An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker's world from the inside, step in inside his or her shoes.

When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.

Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.

Listen to your child enough and you will come to realize that he or she is quite an extraordinary individual. And the more extraordinary you realize your child to be the more you will be willing to listen. And the more you will learn.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

As I grow through love, so grows my joy, ever more present, ever more constant.

We cannot be a source for strength unless we nurture our own strength.