When you need empathy, you cannot give empathy.

Regardless of our many differences, we all have the same needs. What differs is the strategy for fulfilling these needs.

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

Miracles can happen when we can keep our consciousness away from analyzing and classifying one another.

Everything we do is in service of our needs. When this one concept is applied to our view of others, we'll see that we have no real enemies, that what others do to us is the best possible thing they know to do to get their needs met.

Unless we as social change agents come from a certain spirituality, we're likely to create more harm than good.

Most of us grew up speaking a language that encourages us to label, compare, demand, and pronounce judgments rather than to be aware of what we are feeling and needing.