Empathy before education.
You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt.
Be very slow to go into looking for solutions.
The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety.
A good listener truly wants to know the speaker.
Always hear the 'Yes' in the 'No'.
We can never make anyone do anything against their will without enormous consequences.
It seems to me that whereas power usually means power-over, the power of some person or group over some other person or group, it is possible to develop the conception of power-with, a jointly developed power, a co-active, not a coercive power.
The more we talk about the past, the less we heal from it.
Avoid 'shoulding' on others and yourself!
Everything has changed, except our way of thinking.
What all the basic religions are saying is this: Don't do anything that isn't play.
NO is always a YES to something else.
Depression is the reward we get for being 'good'.
Plans to exact retribution are never going to make us safer.
That's all nonviolence is - organized love.
This is who I am. Not everybody has to like it.
At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.
Marshall took nonviolence a step further - beyond Gandhi.
We are never angry because of what others say or do. It is our thinking that makes us angry.
