With empathy, I'm fully with them, not full of them — that's sympathy.

Blaming and punishing others are superficial expressions of anger.

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

Whether I praise or criticize someone's action, I imply that I am their judge, that I'm engaged in rating them or what they have done.

The more we use words that in any way imply criticism, the more difficult it is for people to stay connected to the beauty within themselves.

I don't think you can have an authentic connection when one person is diagnosing the other.

All moralistic judgments, whether positive or negative, are tragic expressions of unmet needs.