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

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

To engage in dialogue is to serve others via whatever is real inside you; to engage in debate is to ultimately serve the illusions of your ego.

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.

Dialogue helps us to acknowledge that we see the world not as it is, but as we are.

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

Only ever doing what feels comfortable is a form of suicide.

Debate is an attempt to cling to the illusion of control provided by a point of view designed to keep the ego in place; dialogue is an attempt to dance with the unknown at the risk of losing what we think we know.