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When we are in contact with our feelings and needs, we humans no longer make good slaves and underlings.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
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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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When we are angry, killing people is too superficial.
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Intellectual understanding blocks empathy.
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Empathizing with someone's 'no' protects us from taking it personally.
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Never connect yourself with the other person's pain. Just hear their need. Leave yourself out of the other person's feelings and needs.
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Never hear what a jackal-speaking person thinks, especially what they think about you.
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Learning is too precious to be motivated by coercive tactics.
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We are responsible for what we hear other people say and for how we act.
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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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Fear of corporal punishment obscures children's awareness of the compassion underlying the parent's demands.
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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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Don't get addicted to your requests. Your objective is needs, not requests. Because then it becomes a demand.
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Children need far more than basic skills in reading, writing, and math, as important as those might be. Children also need to learn how to think for themselves, how to find meaning in what they learn, and how to work and live together.
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I believe that the most joyful and intrinsic motivation human beings have for taking any action is the desire to meet our needs and the needs of others.
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Praise and reward create a system of extrinsic motivations for behavior. Children (and adults) end up taking action in order to receive the praise or rewards.
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My anger tells me firstly that there's a need of mine that's not getting met.
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The first step in healing is to put the focus on what's alive now, not what happened in the past.
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Clinical training in psychoanalysis has a deficit. It teaches how to sit and think about what a person is saying and how to interpret it intellectually, but not how to be fully present to this person.
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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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It's never what people do that makes us angry it's what we tell ourselves about what they did.
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