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Marshall B Rosenberg Inspirational Quotes (147)

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We need empathy to give empathy.
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My ultimate goal is to spend as many of my moments in life as I can in that world that the poet Rumi talks about, 'a place beyond rightness and wrongness.
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A respectful understanding of another's experience.
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Praise and reward create a system of extrinsic motivations for behavior. Children (and adults) end up taking action in order to receive the praise or rewards.
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My anger tells me firstly that there's a need of mine that's not getting met.
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To be able to hear our own feelings and needs and to empathize with them can free us from depression.
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Criticism, analysis, and insults are tragic expressions of unmet needs.
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They have most likely said it because they have an unmet need.
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Regardless of our many differences, we all have the same needs. What differs is the strategy for fulfilling these needs.
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We need empathy to give empathy. When we sense ourselves being defensive or unable to empathize, we need to (a) stop, breathe, give ourselves empathy, (b) scream nonviolently, or (c) take time out.
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Never hear what a jackal-speaking person thinks, especially what they think about you.
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The most important use of NVC may be in developing self-compassion.
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Fix-it jackals can't wait to fix it, because they don't know how to enjoy pain. And until you learn how to enjoy pain, you can't enjoy intimacy.
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You'll find people less threatening if you hear what they're needing rather than what they're thinking about you.
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Labeling and diagnosis is a catastrophic way to communicate. Telling other people what's wrong with them greatly reduces, almost to zero, the probability that we're going to get what we're after.
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In NVC, no matter what words others may use to express themselves, we simply listen for their observations, feelings, needs, and requests.
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We can never make anyone do anything against their will without enormous consequences.
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Also, think about your intentionality - are you getting lost in the method? or coming from the intentionality, the purpose? You don't want to do the mechanics without the consciousness.
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Enemy images are the main reason conflicts don't get resolved.
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I try never to hear what another person thinks of me. I enjoy life a lot more when I spend as little time as possible hearing or thinking about what other people think about me. I go to the needs behind the thoughts. Then I'm in a different world.
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Intellectual understanding blocks empathy.
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I have tried to integrate the spirituality into the training in a way that meets my need not to destroy the beauty of it through abstract philosophizing.
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We want to take action out of the desire to contribute to life rather than out of fear, guilt, shame, or obligation.
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NVC suggests behind every action, however ineffective, tragic, violent, or abhorrent to us, is an attempt to meet a need.
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