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.

Power-Over leads to punishment and violence. Power-With leads to compassion and understanding, and to learning motivated by reverence for life rather than fear, guilt, shame, or anger.

What others do may be the stimulus of our feelings, but never the cause.

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

This language is from the head. It is a way of mentally classifying people into varying shades of good and bad, right and wrong. Ultimately, it provokes defensiveness, resistance, and counterattack. It is a language of demands.

Most of us live in a Jackal world where we take turns using the other person as a waste basket for our words.

Empathy lies in our ability to be present without opinion.