Marshall Rosenberg - Compassion Quotes

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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.

Marshall Rosenberg

Power-Over leads to punishment and violence. Power-With leads to compassion and understanding, and to learning motivated by reverence for life rather than fear, guilt, shame, or anger.

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Fear of corporal punishment obscures children's awareness of the compassion underlying the parent's demands.

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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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NVC helps us connect with each other and ourselves in a way that allows our natural compassion to flourish.

Marshall Rosenberg

What I want in my life is compassion
a flow between myself and others
based on mutual giving from the heart.

Marshall Rosenberg