Marshall Rosenberg Quotes

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Children need far more than basic skills in reading, writing, and math, as important as those might be. Children also need to learn how to think for themselves, how to find meaning in what they learn, and how to work and live together.

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Unless we as social change agents come from a certain kind of spirituality, we're likely to create more harm than good.

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When we are in contact with our feelings and needs, we humans no longer make good slaves and underlings.

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Get very clear about the kind of world we would like and then start living that way.

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When we express our needs indirectly through the use of evaluations, interpretations, and images, others are likely to hear criticism. When people hear anything that sounds like criticism, they tend to invest their energy in self-defense or counterattack. It's important that when we address somebody that we're clear what we want back.

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The cause of anger lies in our thinking - in thoughts of blame and judgment.

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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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While we may not consider the way we talk to be 'violent,' our words often lead to hurt and pain, whether for others or for ourselves.

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We recognize that real educational reform is essential if today's and tomorrow's children are to live in a more peaceful, just, and sustainable world.

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The more we empathize with the other party, the safer we feel.

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NVC enhances inner communication by helping us translate negative internal messages into feelings and needs. Our ability to distinguish our own feelings and needs and to empathize with them can free us from depression.

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A second even more obvious sign is that the person will stop talking. If we are uncertain as to whether we have stayed long enough in the process, we can always ask, "Is there more that you wanted to say"?

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The most dangerous of all behaviors may consist of doing things 'because we're supposed to.

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An important aspect of self-compassion is to be able to empathically hold both parts of ourselves-the self that regrets a past action and the self that took the action in the first place.

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Conventional compliments often take the form of judgments however positive, and are sometimes offered to manipulate the behavior of others. NVC encourages the expression of appreciation solely for celebration.

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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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The spirituality that we need to develop for social change is one that mobilizes us for social change.

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Violence comes from the belief that other people cause our pain and therefore deserve punishment.

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Learning is too precious to be motivated by coercive tactics.

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