NVC self-forgiveness: connecting with the need we were trying to meet when we took the action that we now regret.

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.

Reality also is that there are a lot of gaps, there are a lot of business in between the iconic things.

You never know what's in a person's heart until they're tested, do you?

The nagual is the unknown. It cannot be talked about, it can only be witnessed.

As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.

My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if George W.Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem.

If you want to get somewhere in six months, you're not going to get there by wishing it.

Never laughing too loudly in a restaurant no matter how good the joke.

Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills.

Celebrity seems totally at odds with authentic community and honest, real sorts of relationships.

An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words.