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Getting in touch with unmet needs is important to the healing process.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

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Compliments and praise, for their part, are tragic expressions of fulfilled needs
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You're going to lose it when you follow the world feel with the words because I think. Any time you are thinking, your chance of getting what you need is greatly decreased, especially when you follow the word think with the word you. I predict you won't only not get heard, but I predict a defensive aggressive reaction.
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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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As long as I think I 'should' do it, I'll resist it, even if I want very much to do it.
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We want people to change because they see better ways of meeting their needs at less cost, not because of fear that we're going to punish them, or 'guilt' them if they don't. This applies to ourselves as well.
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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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