Instead of playing the game "Making Life Wonderful", we often play the game called "Who's Right". Do you know that game? It's a game where everybody loses.

Most of us live in a Jackal world where we take turns using the other person as a waste basket for our words.

My anger tells me firstly that there's a need of mine that's not getting met.

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

Empathy gives you the ability to enjoy another person's pain.

Very often, the way love is defined, it does violence to both people. It almost makes them a slave to the other. For example, if to be in love, or to be married, it means that I'm responsible for the other person's happiness, now we get into this guilt game, where if they're upset, I'm at fault. Soon, that makes the person we are closest to about as much fun to be around as a prolonged dental appointment.

The more we use words that in any way imply criticism, the more difficult it is for people to stay connected to the beauty within themselves.