Nonviolent Communication is a way of keeping our consciousness tuned in moment by moment to that beauty within ourselves and others, and not saying anything that we think might in any way tarnish people's consciousness of their own beauty.

We can't win at somebody else's expense. We can only fully be satisfied when the other person's needs are fulfilled as well as our own.

What others do may be the stimulus of our feelings, but never the cause.

Remember that whatever anyone does, it is an effort to meet a need.

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

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.

If people just asked: "Here are the needs of both sides, here are the resources. What can be done to meet these needs?" the conflict would be easy to resolve.