Upset? Ask yourself what this person does that is a trigger for judging them?

All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.

Public education for some time has been heavily focused on what curricula we believe will be helpful to students. Life-Enriching Education is based on the premise that the relationship between teachers and students, the relationships of students with one another, and the relationships of students to what they are learning are equally important in preparing students for the future.

The only time a message (label) can scare us is if we think there is such a thing, and that such a thing is a disgrace.

All moralistic judgments, whether positive or negative, are tragic expressions of unmet needs.

In these long-standing conflicts, I find that most cases it gets resolved in about twenty minutes after each side can tell me the needs of the other.

Everything we do is in service of our needs. When this one concept is applied to our view of others, we'll see that we have no real enemies, that what others do to us is the best possible thing they know to do to get their needs met.