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What bores the listener bores the speaker too.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

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When you need empathy, you cannot give empathy.
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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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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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Plans to exact retribution are never going to make us safer.
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Fear of corporal punishment obscures children's awareness of the compassion underlying the parent's demands.
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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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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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