Quotes on Nonviolent Communication

When we are depressed, our thinking blocks us from being aware of our needs, and then being able to take action to meet our needs.

Keep in mind that other people's actions can never 'make' you feel any certain way. Feelings are your warning indicators.

However impressed we may be with NVC concepts, it is only through practice and application that our lives are transformed.

Before we tackle the gangs and the basic story, we have to make sure that we have liberated ourselves from how we have been educated and make sure we are coming from a spirituality of our own choosing.

NVC self-forgiveness: connecting with the need we were trying to meet when we took the action that we now regret.

Miracles can happen when we can keep our consciousness away from analyzing and classifying one another.

Once you have access to key people in an organization, if you go into a meeting with enemy images of those people - then you are not going to connect.

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

NVC suggests behind every action, however ineffective, tragic, violent, or abhorrent to us, is an attempt to meet a need.

I want to appreciate you without judging. Join you without invading. Invite you without demanding. Leave you without guilt.

You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt.

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

Ask before offering advice or reassurance.

When we make mistakes, we can use the process of NVC mourning and self-forgiveness to show us where we can grow instead of getting caught up in moralistic self-judgments.

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.

Anger is a signal that you're distracted by judgmental or punitive thinking, and that some precious need of yours is being ignored.

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

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety.