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.

It may be most difficult to empathize with those we are closest to.

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.

Remember that whatever anyone does, it is an effort to meet a need.

Punishment also includes judgmental labeling and the withholding of privileges.

We are this divine energy. It's not something we have to attain. We just have to realize it, to be present to it.

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