I never have to worry about another person's response, only how I react to what they say.

Time and again, people transcend the paralyzing effects of psychological pain when they have sufficient contact with someone who can hear them empathically.

When we have our consciousness on needs, images come to us, naturally, of how to meet those needs.

Intellectual understanding blocks empathy.

Unless we as social change agents come from a certain spirituality, we're likely to create more harm than good.

Empathy: Emptying our mind and listening with our whole being

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.