NVC self-forgiveness: connecting with the need we were trying to meet when we took the action that we now regret.

NVC helps us connect with each other and ourselves in a way that allows our natural compassion to flourish.

NO is always a YES to something else.

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

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.

Fear of punishment diminishes self-esteem and goodwill.

Everything we do is in service of our needs. When this one concept is applied to our view of others, we'll see that we have no real enemies, that what others do to us is the best possible thing they know to do to get their needs met.