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What bores the listener bores the speaker too.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
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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.
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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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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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With empathy, I'm fully with them, not full of them — that's sympathy.
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I find that my cultural conditioning leads me to focus attention on places where I am unlikely to get what I want. I developed NVC as a way to train my attention-to shine the light of consciousness-on places that have the potential to yield what I am seeking.
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Punishment is the root of violence on our planet.
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Once you have access to key people in an organization, if you go into a meeting with enemy images of those people - then you are not going to connect.
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If people just asked: Here are the needs of both sides, here are the resources. What can be done to meet these needs? the conflict would be easy to resolve.
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Intellectual understanding blocks empathy.
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They have most likely said it because they have an unmet need.
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When we are angry, killing people is too superficial.
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With empathy we don't direct, we follow. Don't just do something, be there.
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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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Upset? Ask yourself what this person does that is a trigger for judging them?
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To be able to hear our own feelings and needs and to empathize with them can free us from depression.
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When we listen for their feelings and needs, we no longer see people as monsters.
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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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Don't get addicted to your requests. Your objective is needs, not requests. Because then it becomes a demand.
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When you need empathy, you cannot give empathy.
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Getting in touch with unmet needs is important to the healing process.
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