Classifying and judging people promotes violence.

The kind of spirituality I value is one in which you get great joy out of contributing to life, not just sitting and meditating, although meditation is certainly valuable. But from meditation, from the resulting consciousness, I would like to see people in action creating the world they want to live in.

When we understand the needs that motivate our own and others behavior, we have no enemies.

I believe that the most joyful and intrinsic motivation human beings have for taking any action is the desire to meet our needs and the needs of others.

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

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

Empathy allows us to re-perceive our world in a new way and move forward.