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My ultimate goal is to spend as many of my moments in life as I can in that world that the poet Rumi talks about, 'a place beyond rightness and wrongness.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

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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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We need empathy to give empathy.
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All people ever say is: THANK YOU (a celebration of life) and PLEASE (an opportunity to make life more wonderful).
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Life-Enriching Education: an education that prepares children to learn throughout their lives, relate well to others, and themselves, be creative, flexible, and venturesome, and have empathy not only for their immediate kin but for all of humankind.
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We only feel dehumanized when we get trapped in the derogatory images of other people or thoughts of wrongness about ourselves.
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We are this divine energy. It's not something we have to attain. We just have to realize it, to be present to it.
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Fear of corporal punishment obscures children's awareness of the compassion underlying the parent's demands.
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Violence comes from the belief that other people cause our pain and therefore deserve punishment.
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A need is life seeking expression within us.
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The number one rule of our training is empathy before education.
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They have most likely said it because they have an unmet need.
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Fix-it jackals can't wait to fix it, because they don't know how to enjoy pain. And until you learn how to enjoy pain, you can't enjoy intimacy.
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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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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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Two things distinguish nonviolent actions from violent actions. First, you don't see an enemy and second, your intention is not to make the other side suffer.
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Also, think about your intentionality - are you getting lost in the method? or coming from the intentionality, the purpose? You don't want to do the mechanics without the consciousness.
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NVC helps us connect with each other and ourselves in a way that allows our natural compassion to flourish.
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When we are in contact with our feelings and needs, we humans no longer make good slaves and underlings.
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Staying with empathy we allow speakers to touch deeper levels of themselves.
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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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