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Marshall B. Rosenberg
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When we are in contact with our feelings and needs, we humans no longer make good slaves and underlings.
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Everything we do is in service of our needs. When this one concept is applied to our view of others, we'll see that we have no real enemies, that what others do to us is the best possible thing they know to do to get their needs met.
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The punitive use of force tends to generate hostility and to reinforce resistance to the very behavior we are seeking.
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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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Get very clear about the kind of world we would like and then start living that way.
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Plans to exact retribution are never going to make us safer.
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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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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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What bores the listener bores the speaker too.
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Whether I praise or criticize someone's action, I imply that I am their judge, that I'm engaged in rating them or what they have done.
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When we are angry, killing people is too superficial.
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