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

Behind intimidating messages are simply people appealing to us to meet their needs.

Understanding the other persons' needs does not mean you have to give up on your own needs.

Before we tackle the gangs and the basic story, we have to make sure that we have liberated ourselves from how we have been educated and make sure we are coming from a spirituality of our own choosing.

We are dangerous when we are not conscious of our responsibility for how we behave, think, and feel.

The intention behind the protective use of force is to prevent injury, never to punish or to cause individuals to suffer, repent or change.

My ultimate goal is to spend as many of my moments in life as I can in that world that the poet Rumi talks about, 'a place beyond rightness and wrongness.