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With empathy, I'm fully with them, not full of them — that's sympathy.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

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When you need empathy, you cannot give empathy.
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It's harder to empathize with those who appear to possess more power, status, or resources.
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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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Needs are the expression of life through us.
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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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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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To be able to hear our own feelings and needs and to empathize with them can free us from depression.
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Never connect yourself with the other person's pain. Just hear their need. Leave yourself out of the other person's feelings and needs.
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As soon as you say, are you feeling X because I ... Then the Jackal starts to salivate because he can educate the person that he's the cause of his pain.
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Interpretations, criticisms, diagnoses, and judgments of others are actually alienated expressions of our unmet needs.
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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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NVC requires us to be continually conscious of the beauty within ourselves and other people.
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Not getting our needs fulfilled is painful - but it's a sweet pain, not suffering, which is what comes from life-alienated thinking and interpretation.
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It may be most difficult to empathize with those we are closest to.
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Criticism, analysis, and insults are tragic expressions of unmet needs.
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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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Enemy images are the main reason conflicts don't get resolved.
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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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All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.
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The objective of Nonviolent Communication is not to change people and their behavior in order to get our way: it is to establish relationships based on honesty and empathy, which will eventually fulfill everyone's needs.
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