With empathy we don't direct, we follow. Don't just do something, be there.

When we listen for feelings and needs - we can see that people who seem like monsters are simply human beings whose language and behavior sometimes keep us from seeing their humanness.

I have tried to integrate the spirituality into the training in a way that meets my need not to destroy the beauty of it through abstract philosophizing.

We only feel dehumanized when we get trapped in the derogatory images of other people or thoughts of wrongness about ourselves.

When I recognize I've got anger, then I realize it's because I have a need that's not being met.

The only time a message (label) can scare us is if we think there is such a thing, and that such a thing is a disgrace.

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