Marshall B. Rosenberg Quotes - Page 2

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• 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 because you are not sure you are with the person. So you may say some words. But the words are not empathy. Empathy is when the other person feels the connection with what's alive in you.

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  Eye, Empathy, Connections

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• Labeling and diagnosis is a catastrophic way to communicate. Telling other people what's wrong with them greatly reduces, almost to zero, the probability that we're going to get what we're after.

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  Zero, Communication, People

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• When you need empathy, you cannot give empathy.

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  Communication, Giving, Empathy

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• At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.

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  Anger, Needs, Nonviolent Communication

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• People don't make us angry, how we think makes us angry.

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  Communication, Thinking, People

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• As we learn to speak from the heart we are changing the habits of a lifetime.

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  Communication, Heart, Speak

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• The Indian philosopher J. Krishnamurti once remarked that observing without evaluating is the highest form of human intelligence. When I first read this statement, the thought, 'What nonsense!' shot through my mind before I realized that I had just made an evaluation.

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  Mind, Evaluation, Firsts

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• If you are a czar or a king or a president or someone that wants to control those below them you do not want people to have a consciousness of life, of their needs. Because people do not make good slaves when they're connected to life... That's why in the public schools the primary objective is obedience to authority.

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  Kings, School, People

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• Empathy before education.

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  Communication, Empathy, Nonviolent Communication

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• Conflicts, even of long standing duration, can be resolved if we can just keep the flow of communication going in which people come out of their heads and stop criticizing and analyzing each other, and instead get in touch with their needs, and hear the needs of others, and realize the interdependence that we all have in relation to each other. We can't win at somebody else's expense. We can only fully be satisfied when the other person's needs are fulfilled as well as our own.

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  Communication, Winning, Long

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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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  Pain, Empathy, Listening

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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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  Communication, World, Way

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2004). “The Heart of Social Change: How to Make a Difference in Your World”, p.6, PuddleDancer Press

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• When we listen for feelings and needs - we can see that people who seem like monsters are simply human beings whose language and behavior sometimes keep us from seeing their humanness.

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  People, Feelings, Monsters

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• People have been trained to criticize, insult, and otherwise communicate in ways that create distance among people.

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  Distance, Communication, People

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2004). “We Can Work it Out: Resolving Conflicts Peacefully and Powerfully”, p.9, PuddleDancer Press

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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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  Communication, Differences, Needs

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• If we want to be compassionate we must be conscious of the words we use. We must both speak and listen from the heart.

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  Heart, Use, Want

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• 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 to what people might be requesting, we may not convey our genuine interest in their feelings and needs; instead, they may get the impression that we're in a hurry to either be free of them or to fix their problem. Furthermore, an initial message is often like the tip of an iceberg; it may be followed by yet unexpressed, but related - and often more powerful - feelings.

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  Powerful, Opportunity, People

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• Never do anything that isn't play.

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  Communication, Play, Nonviolent Communication

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2004). “Getting Past the Pain Between Us: Healing and Reconciliation Without Compromise”, p.24, PuddleDancer Press

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• If you think ahead to what to say next - like how to fix it or make the person feel better - BOOM! Off the board. You're into the future. Empathy requires staying with the energy that's here right now. Not using any technique. Just being present. When I have really connected to this energy, it's like I wasn't there. I call this "watching the magic show". In this presence, a very precious energy works through us that can heal anything, and this relieves me from my "fix-it" tendencies.

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  Feel Better, Thinking, Empathy

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• Nonviolent Communication is a way of keeping our consciousness tuned in moment by moment to that beauty within ourselves and others, and not saying anything that we think might in any way tarnish people's consciousness of their own beauty.

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  Communication, Way, Consciousness

  "Teaching Children Compassionately: How Students and Teachers Can Succeed with Mutual Understanding".

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• Don't hate the circumstance, you may miss the blessing

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  Hate, Communication, Blessing

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• A need is life seeking expression within us.

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  Communication, Expression, Needs

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• Judgments of others contribute to self-fulfilling prophecies.

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  Communication, Self, Judgment

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• We are dangerous when we are not conscious of our responsibility for how we behave, think, and feel.

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  Responsibility, Emotional, Thinking

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• When our communication supports compassionate giving and receiving, happiness replaces violence and grieving.

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  Happiness, Communication, Grieving

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