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

We have to accept that much of reality is ineffable and so to understand it we can't rely on words alone.

Dialogue is an opportunity for people to communicate from outside the limitations of their points of view. When we enter a circle of dialogue, there are no labels, only human beings.

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

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.