We're not taught to think in terms of needs. We don't make nice dead people when we're in touch with needs. Domination structures cannot maintain themselves when citizens are educated to be alive.

If we wish to express anger fully, the first step is to divorce the other person from any responsibility for our anger.

As we learn to speak from the heart we are changing the habits of a lifetime.

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.

We're not taught to think in terms of needs. We don't make nice dead people when we're in touch with needs. Domination structures cannot maintain themselves when citizens are educated to be alive.

When I am angry I have a judgment and an unmet need.

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