Compassionate Dialogue Quotes

War is wicked, beause it is murder and hate. And it is foolish, because hate and murder can only destroy people's bodies, not change their minds.

When it's a real person, you want to be as honest as you can and approach it in a similar way as you would any other character, but with that restriction and wanting to respect the boundaries of that person and not be intrusive in any way.

Most people have never been listened to, and they've never been asked questions that they want to be asked.

Never mind a world That can't see past brutality Answers are getting the gas Live gestures Have constantly been used As weapons

A good model of how to 'work with the enemy' internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet.

It's group therapy for the world.

You have these kids trying to make these grown up decisions because nobody is talking to them. We're talking at them, but we're not listening to them.

In an effort to create a culture within my classroom where students feel safe sharing the intimacies of their own silences, I have four core principles posted on the board that sits in the front of my class, which every student signs at the beginning of the year: read critically, write consciously, speak clearly, tell your truth.

Violence is a part of the world and life, and you shouldn't have to take it out of stories.

Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.

The next step is to learn to communicate with the people that you feel are causing your pain and misery- not to learn how to prove them wrong and yourself right but how to communicate from the heart.

One of the principles of nonviolence is that you leave your opponents whole and better off than you found them.

Do not oppose because in opposing the tenderness of the feeling level is crushed. That is why we say Speak the Truth but see that you are speaking delicately. Do not speak non-truth and do not speak in a non sweet way, so that the feeling is nourished.