Never connect yourself with the other person's pain. Just hear their need. Leave yourself out of the other person's feelings and needs.

We recognize that real educational reform is essential if today's and tomorrow's children are to live in a more peaceful, just, and sustainable world.

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.

Never hear what somebody thinks about you, you'll live longer. Hear that they're in pain. Don't hear their analysis.

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

Instead of playing the game "Making Life Wonderful", we often play the game called "Who's Right". Do you know that game? It's a game where everybody loses.

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.