If you believe that saying no will get you shot, well, what a fine way to go.

All we have to do to create the future is to change the nature of our conversations, to go from blame to ownership, and from bargaining to commitment, and from problem solving to possibility.

Why follow the steps of another to find out where our dreams will lead us.

Anecdotes, personal stories, reminiscences, like biblical parables, are the medium through which faith is restored. Stories are a form of poetry, and give us a saving image to personally relate to.

Transformation comes more from pursuing profound questions than seeking practical answers.

As long as we wish for safety, we will have difficulty pursuing what matters.

I discovered that resolution of conflict comes from people being able to express their own feelings and their own needs in the face of another. Making agreements and setting goals without building upon the feelings of the parties involved is empty, because it does not consider the vulnerabilities of our own humanity.