Fear of corporal punishment obscures children's awareness of the compassion underlying the parent's demands.

There are the two main reasons we don't get our needs met. First, we don't know how to express our needs to begin with and second if we do, we forget to put a clear request after it, or we use vague words like appreciate, listen, recognize, know, be real, and stuff like that.

Our survival as a species depends on our ability to recognize that our well-being and the well-being of others are in fact one and the same.

Interpretations, criticisms, diagnoses, and judgments of others are actually alienated expressions of our unmet needs.

When we have our consciousness on needs, images come to us, naturally, of how to meet those needs.

If you are a jackal, you will try to reassure. Jackals try to fix people in pain. They can't stand pain, but make matters worse by trying to get rid of it. Put on giraffe ears. Try to hear what they are feeling and needing.

In a Giraffe institution, the head nurse job would be to serve the nurses, not to control them. Teachers are there to serve the students, not control them.