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

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.

Your presence is the most precious gift you can give to another human being.

The punitive use of force tends to generate hostility and to reinforce resistance to the very behavior we are seeking.

Empathy allows us to re-perceive our world in a new way and move forward.

Not getting our needs fulfilled is painful - but it's a sweet pain, not suffering, which is what comes from life-alienated thinking and interpretation.

Our survival as a species depends on our ability to recognize that our well-being and the well-being of others are in fact one and the same.