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When I am angry I have a judgment and an unmet need.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

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Empathy gives you the ability to enjoy another person's pain.
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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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If the other persons behavior is not in harmony with my own needs, the more I empathize with them and their needs, the more likely I am to get me own needs met.
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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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What bores the listener bores the speaker too.
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All that has been integrated into NVC has been known for centuries about consciousness, language, communication skills, and use of power that enable us to maintain a perspective of empathy for ourselves and others, even under trying conditions.
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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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When we are angry, killing people is too superficial.
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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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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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Classifying and judging people promotes violence.
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Instead of playing the game Making Life Wonderful, we often play the game called Who's Right. Do you know that game? It's a game where everybody loses.
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Intellectual understanding blocks empathy.
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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.
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Use anger as a wake-up call to unmet needs.
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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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Plans to exact retribution are never going to make us safer.
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