If we want to be compassionate we must be conscious of the words we use. We must both speak and listen from the heart.

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.

Our goal is to create a quality of empathic connection that allows everyone's needs to be met.

When we are angry, killing people is too superficial.

The spirituality that we need to develop for social change is one that mobilizes us for social change.

Needs are never conflicting. When we say that, we are only saying that at the moment we aren't seeing how both needs can be met. That leaves an opening. When you think in the way I'm suggesting, you'll often find a way to get most needs met simultaneously.

Interpretations, criticisms, diagnoses, and judgments of others are actually alienated expressions of our unmet needs.