Advice is unfriendly to learning, especially when it is sought. Most of the time when people seek advice, they just want to be heard. Advice at best stops the conversation, definitely inhibits learning, and at worst claims dominance.

Every parent's deepest wish is that their children are self sufficient, happy, and able to live a full life.

We need to tell people not to be helpful. Trying to be helpful and giving advise are really ways to control others. ... Advice, recommendations, and obvious actions are exactly what increase the likelihood that tomorrow will be just like yesterday.

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.

If we believe something does not exist unless we measure it, then we put aside: love, feeling, intuition, art and philosophy.

If you need ownership and responsibility from core workers, patriarchy can't get you there.

The price of change is measured by our will and courage, our persistence, in the face of difficulty.