Our survival as a species depends on our ability to recognize that our well-being and the well-being of others are in fact one and the same.

It's never what people do that makes us angry; it's what we tell ourselves about what they did.

What bores the listener bores the speaker too.

The kind of spirituality I value is one in which you get great joy out of contributing to life, not just sitting and meditating, although meditation is certainly valuable. But from meditation, from the resulting consciousness, I would like to see people in action creating the world they want to live in.

The key to fostering connection in the face of a 'no' is always hearing 'yes' to something else.

When we make mistakes, we can use the process of NVC mourning and self-forgiveness to show us where we can grow instead of getting caught up in moralistic self-judgments.

Four D's of Disconnection: 1. Diagnosis (judgment, analysis, criticism, comparison); 2. Denial of Responsibility; 3. Demand; 4. 'Deserve' oriented language.