Don't hate the circumstance, you may miss the blessing

Thinking based on who deserves what blocks compassionate communication.

The intention behind the protective use of force is to prevent injury, never to punish or to cause individuals to suffer, repent or change.

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

The spirituality that we need to develop for social change is one that mobilizes us for social change.

The most dangerous of all behaviors may consist of doing things 'because we're supposed to.

Every moment each human being is doing the best we know at that moment to meet our needs. We never do anything that is not in the service of a need, there is no conflict on our planet at the level of needs. We all have the same needs. The problem is in strategies for meeting the needs.