The most important use of NVC may be in developing self-compassion.

It's really a spiritual practice that I am trying to show as a way of life.

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 stem this flow if we were to shift attention too quickly either to their request or to our own desire to express ourselves.

I think that there is a problem with rewards and consequences because in the long run, they rarely work in the ways we hope. In fact, they are likely to backfire.

It's never what people do that makes us angry; it's what we tell ourselves about what they did.

Unless we as social change agents come from a certain spirituality, we're likely to create more harm than good.

Never question the beauty of what you are saying because someone reacts with pain, judgment, criticism. It just means they have not heard you.