When we focus on clarifying what is being observed, felt, and needed rather than on diagnosing and judging, we discover the depth of our own compassion.

A difficult message to hear is an opportunity to enrich someone's life.

NVC gives us tools and understanding to create a more peaceful state of mind.

Depression is the reward we get for being 'good'.

In a Giraffe institution, the head nurse job would be to serve the nurses, not to control them. Teachers are there to serve the students, not control them.

We only feel dehumanized when we get trapped in the derogatory images of other people or thoughts of wrongness about ourselves.

Miracles can happen when we can keep our consciousness away from analyzing and classifying one another.