When we are in contact with our feelings and needs, we humans no longer make good slaves and underlings.

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.

Love is an unconditional state of being.

It appears that the solution of the problem of time and space is reserved to philosophers who, like Leibniz, are mathematicians, or to mathematicians who, like Einstein, are philosophers.

We are a dream of a thought which lives trough the Word.

All I want to do is learn to think like God. All the rest is just details.

I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.

After everything that's happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is.

Love is who we are, and when we deviate from that love we're deviating from our ultimate, essential, eternal reality.

We are our own gods and our own demons.

I'm no respecter of tradition and I have no time for the Manchester Uniteds and Arsenals of this world. There's nothing to admire in these clubs. They're just bullshit worlds full of bullshit people.

He laughed like an irresponsible foetus.