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Blaming and punishing others are superficial expressions of anger.
If they can't learn the way we teach, we teach the way they learn.
People need to have 'the dignity of risk' and 'the right to fail'.
Unconscious decisions for action go on constantly inside the head.
Even Eichmann was sickened when he toured the concentration camps.
The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.
That non-attachment gives us the freedom to be exactly who we are.
I knew I could hold myself with that absolute love and compassion.
You cannot use butterfly language to communicate with caterpillars
As my awareness increases, my control over my own being increases.
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.
Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive.
Slow thinking has the feeling of something you do. It's deliberate.
Children require long, uniterrupted periods of play and exploration
What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.
You can certainly go to war about it, but to me it seems pointless.
When we are young we are like a flowing river - and then we freeze.
Social action, just like physical action, is steered by perception.
Introverts paradoxically pull away from culture and create culture.
Remember that whatever anyone does, it is an effort to meet a need.
The most important use of NVC may be in developing self-compassion.
It may be most difficult to empathize with those we are closest to.
With meditation I found a ledge above the waterfall of my thoughts.
If you put good apples into a bad situation, you’ll get bad apples.
If you want to change a person, you've got to change the situation.
Believe firmly that in chess there are no rules without exceptions.
We can't control the world, but we can control our reactions to it.
Paying attention is the most basic and profound expression of love.
To open in a loving way is to let awareness notice that tightening.
Meditation is evolution's strategy to bring out our full potential.
Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha.
LSD is known to induce psychosis, in people who have never used it.
One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities.
What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.
The second-sweetest set of three words in English is 'I don't know.'
All of us would be better investors if we just made fewer decisions.
It was always assumed I would be a professor. I grew up thinking it.
Intellectuals are hindered on the way to being, by their narcissism.
Beauty reveals itself in the course of an experience with an object.
The gift of an image is that it provides a place to watch your soul.
It's very important for men to look downward, to the next generation
In reference to right answers - Knowing is a process, not a product.
She's an idiot. She's looking at life through a selfish, lusty haze.
Idolatry is still a socially cohesive force - its original function.
One does one's thinking before one knows what one is to think about.
The teacher must adopt the role of facilitator not content provider.
The only 'good' learning is that which is in advance of development.
Time is the backdrop of our lives and the very fabric of the cosmos.
Humans have a habit of running faster when they have lost their way.