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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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Time and again, people transcend the paralyzing effects of psychological pain when they have sufficient contact with someone who can hear them empathically.
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Criticism, analysis, and insults are tragic expressions of unmet needs.
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Enemy images are the main reason conflicts don't get resolved.
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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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NVC requires us to be continually conscious of the beauty within ourselves and other people.
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When we express our needs indirectly through the use of evaluations, interpretations, and images, others are likely to hear criticism. When people hear anything that sounds like criticism, they tend to invest their energy in self-defense or counterattack. It's important that when we address somebody that we're clear what we want back.
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We're not taught to think in terms of needs. We don't make nice dead people when we're in touch with needs. Domination structures cannot maintain themselves when citizens are educated to be alive.
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Plans to exact retribution are never going to make us safer.
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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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Regardless of our many differences, we all have the same needs. What differs is the strategy for fulfilling these needs.
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Judgments of others contribute to self-fulfilling prophecies.
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People heal from their pain when they have an authentic connection with another human being.
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Four D's of Disconnection: 1. Diagnosis (judgment, analysis, criticism, comparison) 2. Denial of Responsibility 3. Demand 4. 'Deserve' oriented language.
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We need empathy to give empathy.
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