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.

Intellectual understanding blocks empathy.

The most dangerous of all behaviors may consist of doing things 'because we're supposed to.

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.

To practice the process of conflict resolution, we must completely abandon the goal of getting people to do what we want.

All people ever say is: THANK YOU (a celebration of life) and PLEASE (an opportunity to make life more wonderful).

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