Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships (Nonviolent Communication Guides)

The ability to hear our own feelings and needs and empathize with them can free us from depression.

By focusing attention on our own feelings and needs, we become conscious that our current feeling of hurt derives from a need for our efforts to be recognized.

when the sole energy that motivates us is simply to make life wonderful for others and ourselves, then even hard work has an element of play in it.

we have been taught by society to criticize, insult, and otherwise (mis)communicate in ways that keep us apart.

Communicating our desires as demands is yet another form of language that blocks compassion.

It takes tremendous energy and awareness to recognize this destructive learning and to transform it into thoughts and behaviors that are of value and of service to life.

To keep the process on track under such circumstances, we need to get comfortable with interrupting.

The intention behind the protective use of force is to prevent injury or injustice. The intention behind the punitive use of force is to cause individuals to suffer for their perceived misdeeds.

Learn to hear needs regardless of how people express them.