Social change involves helping people see new options for making life wonderful that are less costly to get needs met.

The more we empathize with the other party, the safer we feel.

Once you have access to key people in an organization, if you go into a meeting with enemy images of those people - then you are not going to connect.

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.

You don't have to be brilliant. It's enough to become progressively less stupid.

NVC is language, thoughts, communication skills and means of influence that serve my desire to do three things: 1) to liberate myself from cultural learning that is in conflict with how I want to live my life. 2) to empower myself to connect with myself and others in a way that makes compassionate giving natural. 3) to empower myself to create structures that support compassionate giving.

Instead of playing the game "Making Life Wonderful", we often play the game called "Who's Right". Do you know that game? It's a game where everybody loses.