Miracles can happen when we can keep our consciousness away from analyzing and classifying one another.

Often, instead of offering empathy, we have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position or feeling.

Any evaluation which implies rightness or wrongness is a tragic, suicidal expression of an unmet need. Tragic, first because it decreases our likelihood of getting our need met! Even if we think it. And secondly, because it increases the likelihood of violence. That's why I'm suggesting any evaluation which implies rightness or wrongness is a tragic, suicidal expression of an unmet need. Say the need! Learn a need-consciousness.

The key to fostering connection in the face of a 'no' is always hearing 'yes' to something else.

Nonviolent Communication shows us a way of being very honest, but without any criticism, without any insults, without any put-downs, without any intellectual diagnosis implying wrongness.

We give empathy to others for our own benefit.

Time and again, people transcend the paralyzing effects of psychological pain when they have sufficient contact with someone who can hear them empathically.