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We are responsible for what we hear other people say and for how we act.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

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People heal from their pain when they have an authentic connection with another human being.
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Classifying and judging people promotes violence.
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With empathy we don't direct, we follow. Don't just do something, be there.
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As radical as it may seem, it is possible to do things only out of play. I believe that to the degree that we engage moment by moment in the playfulness of enriching life- motivated solely by the desire for its enrichment- to that degree are we being compassionate with ourselves.
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There are the two main reasons we don't get our needs met. First, we don't know how to express our needs to begin with and second if we do, we forget to put a clear request after it, or we use vague words like appreciate, listen, recognize, know, be real, and stuff like that.
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The only time a message (label) can scare us is if we think there is such a thing, and that such a thing is a disgrace.
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I don't think you can have an authentic connection when one person is diagnosing the other.
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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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The most dangerous of all behaviors may consist of doing things 'because we're supposed to.
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Punishment is the root of violence on our planet.
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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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To practice NVC, it's critical for me to be able to slow down, take my time, to come from an energy I choose, the one I believe that we were meant to come from, not the one I was programmed into.
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Don't hate the circumstance, you may miss the blessing
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Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.
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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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