If people just asked: "Here are the needs of both sides, here are the resources. What can be done to meet these needs?" the conflict would be easy to resolve.

The kind of spirituality I value is one in which you get great joy out of contributing to life, not just sitting and meditating, although meditation is certainly valuable. But from meditation, from the resulting consciousness, I would like to see people in action creating the world they want to live in.

NO is always a YES to something else.

People have been trained to criticize, insult, and otherwise communicate in ways that create distance among people.

Anger can be a wonderful wake up call to help you understand what you need and what you value.

An important aspect of self-compassion is to be able to empathically hold both parts of ourselves-the self that regrets a past action and the self that took the action in the first place.

We know the speaker has received adequate empathy when a. we sense a release of tension, or b. the flow of words comes to a halt.