When our communication supports compassionate giving and receiving, happiness replaces violence and grieving.

It's really a spiritual practice that I am trying to show as a way of life.

Our survival as a species depends on our ability to recognize that our well-being and the well-being of others are in fact one and the same.

Don't get addicted to your requests. Your objective is needs, not requests. Because then it becomes a demand.

Empathizing with someone's 'no' protects us from taking it personally.

We give empathy to others for our own benefit.

We never really know what we want until after we get it. If after we get it, it makes life more miserable, we know that isn't what we wanted. If it makes our life wonderful, we know this is a strategy which will meet out need. That's why Paul Tillich, the theologian says we need to sin courageously. You ask for what you want, hoping to meet your needs. If you get it and it makes life worse, you learn that this isn't what I want.