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Marshall B. Rosenberg

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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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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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Time and again, people transcend the paralyzing effects of psychological pain when they have sufficient contact with someone who can hear them empathically.
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We need empathy to give empathy. When we sense ourselves being defensive or unable to empathize, we need to (a) stop, breathe, give ourselves empathy, (b) scream nonviolently, or (c) take time out.
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When you need empathy, you cannot give empathy.
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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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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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Nonviolent Communication is a way of keeping our consciousness tuned in moment by moment to that beauty within ourselves and others, and not saying anything that we think might in any way tarnish people's consciousness of their own beauty.
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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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Blaming and punishing others are superficial expressions of anger.
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A need is life seeking expression within us.
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NVC is founded on language and communication skills that strengthen our ability to remain human, even under trying conditions.
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What others do may be the stimulus of our feelings, but never the cause.
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Remember that whatever anyone does, it is an effort to meet a need.
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If we ask two questions, we will see that punishment never works. First: What do we want the other person to do? Second: What do we want the other person's reasons to be for doing as we request?
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They have most likely said it because they have an unmet need.
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I never have to worry about another person's response, only how I react to what they say.
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In a Giraffe institution, the head nurse job would be to serve the nurses, not to control them. Teachers are there to serve the students, not control them.
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Enemy images are the main reason conflicts don't get resolved.
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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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