Make your goal to attend to your underlying needs and to aim for a resolution so satisfying that everyone involved has their needs met also.

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.

In the wilderness, be not afraid. Trust God to deliver you.

If we take memetics seriously then the 'me' that could do the choosing is itself a memetic construct: a fluid and ever-changing group of memes installed in a complicated meme machine.

Our true nature doesn’t need any explanation or demonstration to know itself. It just knows because knowing is part of its nature.

Keep violence in the mind Where it belongs.

A little man often cast a long shadow.

There's not just one trans story. There's not just one trans experience.

All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn, Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn.

My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because thats my comfort level.

The closer you come to your core, the greater is your joy.

Aside from some extra fiber, eating two slices of whole wheat bread is really little different, and often worse, than drinking a can of sugar-sweetened soda or eating a sugary candy bar.