A respectful understanding of another's experience.

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

Intellectual understanding blocks empathy.

To be able to hear our own feelings and needs and to empathize with them can free us from depression.

We need empathy to give empathy.

In our culture, most of us have been trained to ignore our own wants and to discount our needs.

Analyses of others are actually expressions of our own needs and values