Translate all self-judgments into self-empathy.

You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.

If we ask two questions, we will see that punishment never works. First: What do we want the other person to do? Second: What do we want the other person's reasons to be for doing as we request?

We can't win at somebody else's expense. We can only fully be satisfied when the other person's needs are fulfilled as well as our own.

Criticism, analysis, and insults are tragic expressions of unmet needs.

When I recognize I've got anger, then I realize it's because I have a need that's not being met.

Unless we as social change agents come from a certain spirituality, we're likely to create more harm than good.