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Marshall B Rosenberg Inspirational Quotes (147)

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Our survival as a species depends on our ability to recognize that our well-being and the well-being of others are in fact one and the same.
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Avoid 'shoulding' on others and yourself!
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By maintaining our attention on what's going on within others, we offer them a chance to fully explore and express their interior selves. We would stem this flow if we were to shift attention too quickly either to their request or to our own desire to express ourselves.
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With empathy we don't direct, we follow. Don't just do something, be there.
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What bores the listener bores the speaker too.
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It may be most difficult to empathize with those we are closest to.
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The first step in healing is to put the focus on what's alive now, not what happened in the past.
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If we ask two questions, we will see that punishment never works. First: What do we want the other person to do? Second: What do we want the other person's reasons to be for doing as we request?
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Empathy lies in our ability to be present without opinion.
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All people ever say is: THANK YOU (a celebration of life) and PLEASE (an opportunity to make life more wonderful).
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When I am angry I have a judgment and an unmet need.
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Staying with empathy we allow speakers to touch deeper levels of themselves.
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I find that my cultural conditioning leads me to focus attention on places where I am unlikely to get what I want. I developed NVC as a way to train my attention-to shine the light of consciousness-on places that have the potential to yield what I am seeking.
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We are designed for Giving
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Compliments and praise, for their part, are tragic expressions of fulfilled needs
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It's never what people do that makes us angry it's what we tell ourselves about what they did.
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Don't get addicted to your requests. Your objective is needs, not requests. Because then it becomes a demand.
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Life-Enriching Education: an education that prepares children to learn throughout their lives, relate well to others, and themselves, be creative, flexible, and venturesome, and have empathy not only for their immediate kin but for all of humankind.
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Empathy: Emptying our mind and listening with our whole being
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Interpretations, criticisms, diagnoses, and judgments of others are actually alienated expressions of our unmet needs.
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Self-empathy in NVC means checking in with your own feelings and needs.
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Remember that whatever anyone does, it is an effort to meet a need.
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The number one reason that we don't get our needs met, we don't express them. We express judgments. If we do express needs, the number two reasons we don't our needs met, we don't make clear requests.
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I believe that the most joyful and intrinsic motivation human beings have for taking any action is the desire to meet our needs and the needs of others.
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