Punishment also includes judgmental labeling and the withholding of privileges.

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.

Seek to know thy soul.

Knowledge is always there but wisdom is very rare.

At the meeting you behaves exactly as Marathi novelists of the last century tell is husbands do in sari shops.

After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.

I don't think I was ever...trying to kill myself but I knew that if I'd ever gone too far...I wouldn't care.

I don't believe what I just saw!

I am one with the power and wisdom of the Universe. I have all that I need.

He who does not see God in the next person he meets need look no further.

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.

I love the HRC. The initials are great.