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

Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.

Your presence is the most precious gift you can give to another human being.

All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.

We are never angry because of what others say or do. It is our thinking that makes us angry.

Instead of playing the game "Making Life Wonderful", we often play the game called "Who's Right". Do you know that game? It's a game where everybody loses.

Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing.

People have been trained to criticize, insult, and otherwise communicate in ways that create distance among people.

You don't have to be brilliant. It's enough to become progressively less stupid.

Most of us grew up speaking a language that encourages us to label, compare, demand, and pronounce judgments rather than to be aware of what we are feeling and needing.

The most dangerous of all behaviors may consist of doing things 'because we're supposed to.

If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him.

You tell me that yes, I can do it. I know. And I may do it, if I so choose.You tell me that no, I cannot. I say, Oh? I shall do it, since you refuse!

That's what everyone forgets these days: there's a fine line between sanity and insanity. Lots of people are on the edge. We can't be in perfect balance all the time.

It would probably break my heart to hear that people didn't like me. I don't look on the Internet.

We build in thought the conditions that will later come into manifestation on the physical plane.

Any nation that allows the government to dominate its monetary and economic policies will ultimately suffer grave consequences.

I don't believe in monogamy, possessing people, the rightness or inevitability of jealousy.

Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice?

Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.

Awake my soul, and with the sun Thy daily stage of duty run.