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My ultimate goal is to spend as many of my moments in life as I can in that world that the poet Rumi talks about, 'a place beyond rightness and wrongness.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

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When we judge others we contribute to violence.
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A respectful understanding of another's experience.
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I have tried to integrate the spirituality into the training in a way that meets my need not to destroy the beauty of it through abstract philosophizing.
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The punitive use of force tends to generate hostility and to reinforce resistance to the very behavior we are seeking.
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