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Understanding the other persons' needs does not mean you have to give up on your own needs.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

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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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We give empathy to others for our own benefit.
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When I am angry I have a judgment and an unmet need.
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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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We need empathy to give empathy.
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Don't hate the circumstance, you may miss the blessing
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Every moment each human being is doing the best we know at that moment to meet our needs. We never do anything that is not in the service of a need, there is no conflict on our planet at the level of needs. We all have the same needs. The problem is in strategies for meeting the needs.
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Our goal is to create a quality of empathic connection that allows everyone's needs to be met.
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