Oli Anderson

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

Practicing dialogue helps you to cultivate a realness that allows you to face reality on its own terms, not just the terms you__ 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 helps us to acknowledge that we see the world not as it is, but as we are.

This world is your world but that doesn't mean you can always stop it from burning.

Life is a dance more than it is an assertion and there is more health in dynamism or fluidity than there is rigidity and stasis.

Whenever we find ourselves stuck, whenever we find ourselves lost or confused by the chaos of the world, we can be sure that the only way to free ourselves is to take action of some kind. Action is the only thing that ever changes anything and in a world that ever changes, it is the best way to keep ourselves in the flow of the world unfolding.

The human condition is essentially the conflict between the human need for control and a universe that provides little if any of it. Once we accept this and get into the flow of life, we are free and, paradoxically, able to get better results.

One of the most human things that you can do is reach out for the stars knowing that you might not ever touch them; we are all perfectly imperfect, but to live knowing so is to be a fulfilled human being.

Don't cling to your self-concept purely because your will demands it. Demand that your environment aligns as much as possible and change what you must about yourself when the outer world can__ be changed. Mental health is about mental fluidity, mental illness stems in rigidity.

Unleash in the right time and place before you explode at the wrong time andplace.

Remember: knowing originates on the inside, knowledge on the outside. Certain facts and concepts may change, come into being, disappear, or be replaced, but what it is to be a human being will never really be all that different. Every person to ever live, now and the whole of history, has had a rich and elaborate world of inner experience, but it has mainly been flesh upon the same skeleton. We are allborn, come to terms with the world, and then come to terms with coming to terms with the world, as we go through the stages of puberty, old age, death andmaking sense of it all in between. We all live the same process in different ways. Some live it longer than others and some cover more ground. But that's it.

Having problems doesn't make you noble or virtuous, it makes you human. Nobility and virtue comes from the way that you handle your problems and either learn to move past them or live with them if out of your control.

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

Idealism + Inaction = Depression