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Marshall B. Rosenberg

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Anger is a signal that you're distracted by judgmental or punitive thinking, and that some precious need of yours is being ignored.
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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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Use anger as a wake-up call to unmet needs.
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We need empathy to give empathy.
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With every choice you make, be conscious of what need it serves.
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A need is life seeking expression within us.
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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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We use NVC to evaluate ourselves in ways that engender growth rather than self-hatred.
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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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I never have to worry about another person's response, only how I react to what they say.
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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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Teacher, school administrators and parents will come away from Life-Enriching Education with skills in language, communication, and ways of structuring the learning environment that support the development of autonomy and interdependence in the classroom.
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When you need empathy, you cannot give empathy.
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Interpretations, criticisms, diagnoses, and judgments of others are actually alienated expressions of our unmet needs.
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Not getting our needs fulfilled is painful - but it's a sweet pain, not suffering, which is what comes from life-alienated thinking and interpretation.
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All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.
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Regardless of our many differences, we all have the same needs. What differs is the strategy for fulfilling these needs.
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NVC suggests behind every action, however ineffective, tragic, violent, or abhorrent to us, is an attempt to meet a need.
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Staying with empathy we allow speakers to touch deeper levels of themselves.
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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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