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.

It's really a spiritual practice that I am trying to show as a way of life.

Labeling and diagnosis is a catastrophic way to communicate. Telling other people what's wrong with them greatly reduces, almost to zero, the probability that we're going to get what we're after.

Every message, regardless of form or content, is an expression of a need.

I try never to hear what another person thinks of me. I enjoy life a lot more when I spend as little time as possible hearing or thinking about what other people think about me. I go to the needs behind the thoughts. Then I'm in a different world.

It's harder to empathize with those who appear to possess more power, status, or resources.

I don't think you can have an authentic connection when one person is diagnosing the other.