Social change involves helping people see new options for making life wonderful that are less costly to get needs met.
Marshall B. RosenbergThis language is from the head. It is a way of mentally classifying people into varying shades of good and bad, right and wrong. Ultimately, it provokes defensiveness, resistance, and counterattack. It is a language of demands.
Marshall B. RosenbergNVC enhances inner communication by helping us translate negative internal messages into feelings and needs. Our ability to distinguish our own feelings and needs and to empathize with them can free us from depression.
Marshall B. RosenbergWe do not look for compromise; rather, we seek to resolve the conflict to everyone's complete satisfaction.
Marshall B. RosenbergThe kind of spirituality I value is one in which you get great joy out of contributing to life, not just sitting and meditating, although meditation is certainly valuable. But from meditation, from the resulting consciousness, I would like to see people in action creating the world they want to live in.
Marshall B. Rosenberg