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I have tried to integrate the spirituality into the training in a way that meets my need not to destroy the beauty of it through abstract philosophizing.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

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Our survival as a species depends on our ability to recognize that our well-being and the well-being of others are in fact one and the same.
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In our culture, most of us have been trained to ignore our own wants and to discount our needs.
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Empathy gives you the ability to enjoy another person's pain.
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I wouldn't expect someone who's been injured to hear my side until they felt that I had fully understood the depth of their pain.
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When we focus on clarifying what is being observed, felt, and needed rather than on diagnosing and judging, we discover the depth of our own compassion.
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Focusing on the unmet need (not the judgment) is more likely to get the need met.
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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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Self-empathy in NVC means checking in with your own feelings and needs.
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A respectful understanding of another's experience.
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It's harder to empathize with those who appear to possess more power, status, or resources.
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Compliments and praise, for their part, are tragic expressions of fulfilled needs
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Remember that whatever anyone does, it is an effort to meet a need.
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What bores the listener bores the speaker too.
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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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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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What others do may be the stimulus of our feelings, but never the cause.
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With every choice you make, be conscious of what need it serves.
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People heal from their pain when they have an authentic connection with another human being.
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I try never to hear what another person thinks of me. I enjoy life a lot more when I spend as little time as possible hearing or thinking about what other people think about me. I go to the needs behind the thoughts. Then I'm in a different world.
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