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

Empathizing with someone's 'no' protects us from taking it personally.

When you are in a jackal environment, never give them the power to submit or rebel. We want to teach this to children very early: Never lose track that you are always free to choose. Don't allow institutions to determine what you do.

You don't have to be brilliant. It's enough to become progressively less stupid.

Never question the beauty of what you are saying because someone reacts with pain, judgment, criticism. It just means they have not heard you.

Intellectual understanding blocks empathy.

I have tried to integrate the spirituality into the training in a way that meets my need not to destroy the beauty of it through abstract philosophizing.