Plans to exact retribution are never going to make us safer.

A difficult message to hear is an opportunity to enrich someone's life.

If we become skilled in giving ourselves empathy, we often experience in just a few seconds a natural release of energy which then enables us to be present with the other person. If this fails to happen, however, we have a couple of other choices.

The Indian philosopher J. Krishnamurti once remarked that observing without evaluating is the highest form of human intelligence. When I first read this statement, the thought, 'What nonsense!' shot through my mind before I realized that I had just made an evaluation.

We are designed for Giving

All human actions are an attempt to meet needs.

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