Marshall B. Rosenberg Quotes

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• The kind of spirituality I value is one in which you get great joy out of contributing to life, not just sitting and meditating, although…
• When people hear needs, it provokes compassion.
• Have you ever been surfing? Imagine you're on your surfboard now, waiting for the big one to come. Get ready to get carried with that…
• When our communication supports compassionate giving and receiving, happiness replaces violence and grieving.
• If we become skilled in giving ourselves empathy, we often experience in just a few seconds a natural release of energy which then enables us…
• I recommend allowing others the opportunity to fully express themselves before turning our attention to solutions or requests for relief. When we proceed too quickly…
• By maintaining our attention on what's going on within others, we offer them a chance to fully explore and express their interior selves. We would…
• What evidence is there that we've adequately empathized with the other person? First, when an individual realizes that everything going on within has received full…
• 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…
• We need empathy to give empathy. When we sense ourselves being defensive or unable to empathize, we need to (a) stop, breathe, give ourselves empathy,…
• Translate all self-judgments into self-empathy.
• Self-empathy in NVC means checking in with your own feelings and needs.
• Tragically, one of the rarest commodities in our culture is empathy. People are hungry for empathy, They don't know how to ask for it.
• All that has been integrated into NVC has been known for centuries about consciousness, language, communication skills, and use of power that enable us to…
• We need empathy to give empathy.
• In empathy, you don't speak at all. You speak with the eyes. You speak with your body. If you say any words at all, it's…
• 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.
• Intellectual understanding blocks empathy.
• We need to receive empathy to give empathy.
• Empathy lies in our ability to be present without opinion.

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