“Dialogue is about freeing human beings from the beliefs and attitudes that make human beings miserable.”

“Dialogue reminds us that we can question to build, not only to doubt or deconstruct.”

“Practicing dialogue helps you to cultivate a realness that allows you to face reality on its own terms, not just the terms youd like it to have in order to remain in your comfort zone.”

“When people challenge your ideas, they help you (whether they know it or not).”

“Dialogue teaches you to listen through your emotions, not to become distracted or distanced from the truth because of them.”

“Dialogue is about creating awareness through self-observation; it starts from the inside out, not the outside in.”

“Dialogue is about freeing human beings from the beliefs and attitudes that make human beings miserable.”

“I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted by the enemies of mankind. And I continue to cling to words because it is up t...”

“One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone.”

“The ego is like a clever monkey, which can co-opt anything, even the most spiritual practices, so as to expand itself. (155)”

“Ego like bile over taste buds. Get it out or hold it in. It's the suspension will drive you nuts, churn your gut.”

“War within ourselves is always a prelude to war outside ourselves. All war starts within our own hearts. When our egos are inflated or our desires insatiable, we go to war with the other for the sa...”

“You will be a different person after the storm, because the storm will heal you from your perfection.”

“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.”

“In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end...”