Dialogue can help you find out if you’ve been brainwashed or not.

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

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

Most arguments are about programming; most resolutions are reached through a process of unlearning then relearning.

If philosophy gets you lost in the labyrinth of symbols that distance us from reality, then it is part of the problem; if it motivates positive action that can create a better world, philosophy is usually a gift.

The first step to empathy and compassion is realising the similarities between yourself and those that are suffering; the first step to forgiveness is realising that we're all human and we all share the same capacity for fallibility and foible; the first step to growth is to recognise the value of things that are outside your current mental frameworks so that you can grow into them.