Most of us live in a Jackal world where we take turns using the other person as a waste basket for our words.

The Indian philosopher J. Krishnamurti once remarked that observing without evaluating is the highest form of human intelligence. When I first read this statement, the thought, 'What nonsense!' shot through my mind before I realized that I had just made an evaluation.

You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.

Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing.

Empathize with silence by listening for the feelings and needs behind it.

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.

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