Don't hate the circumstance, you may miss the blessing

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

When I recognize I've got anger, then I realize it's because I have a need that's not being met.

What bores the listener bores the speaker too.

People don't make us angry, how we think makes us angry.

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

Conflicts, even of long standing duration, can be resolved if we can just keep the flow of communication going in which people come out of their heads and stop criticizing and analyzing each other, and instead get in touch with their needs, and hear the needs of others, and realize the interdependence that we all have in relation to each other. 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.