The cause of anger lies in our thinking - in thoughts of blame and judgment.

Fear of corporal punishment obscures children's awareness of the compassion underlying the parent's demands.

Depression is the reward we get for being 'good'.

This language is from the head. It is a way of mentally classifying people into varying shades of good and bad, right and wrong. Ultimately, it provokes defensiveness, resistance, and counterattack. It is a language of demands.

We're not taught to think in terms of needs. We don't make nice dead people when we're in touch with needs. Domination structures cannot maintain themselves when citizens are educated to be alive.

We do not look for compromise; rather, we seek to resolve the conflict to everyone's complete satisfaction.

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