When we are depressed, our thinking blocks us from being aware of our needs, and then being able to take action to meet our needs.

The number one reason that we don't get our needs met, we don't express them. We express judgments. If we do express needs, the number two reasons we don't our needs met, we don't make clear requests.

Postpone result/solution thinking until later; it's through connection that solutions materialize - empathy before education.

Life-Enriching Education: an education that prepares children to learn throughout their lives, relate well to others, and themselves, be creative, flexible, and venturesome, and have empathy not only for their immediate kin but for all of humankind.

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

When we are depressed, our thinking blocks us from being aware of our needs, and then being able to take action to meet our needs.

When we are in contact with our feelings and needs, we humans no longer make good slaves and underlings.