What all the basic religions are saying is this: Don't do anything that isn't play.

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.

The first step in healing is to put the focus on what's alive now, not what happened in the past.

In these long-standing conflicts, I find that most cases it gets resolved in about twenty minutes after each side can tell me the needs of the other.

When I am angry I have a judgment and an unmet need.

Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing. Instead of offering empathy, we often have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position or feeling. Empathy, however, calls upon us to empty our mind and listen to others with our whole being.

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