Make your goal to attend to your underlying needs and to aim for a resolution so satisfying that everyone involved has their needs met also.

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.

Before we tackle the gangs and the basic story, we have to make sure that we have liberated ourselves from how we have been educated and make sure we are coming from a spirituality of our own choosing.

Nonviolent Communication shows us a way of being very honest, but without any criticism, without any insults, without any put-downs, without any intellectual diagnosis implying wrongness.

A need is life seeking expression within us.

Thinking based on who deserves what blocks compassionate communication.

Translate all self-judgments into self-empathy.