We are dangerous when we are not conscious of our responsibility for how we behave, think, and feel.

To practice NVC, it's critical for me to be able to slow down, take my time, to come from an energy I choose, the one I believe that we were meant to come from, not the one I was programmed into.

If you have an image of someone cutting off a relationship, it's the cutting off that will lead to your suffering. If you see the action as their need being expressed, then the message is within them, not you. Any interpretation you put onto another person's message (such as passive-aggressive, withholding, etc.), you will pay for because of how you took it.

We are responsible for what we hear other people say and for how we act.

Any time you throw pain at a Jackal without a clear present request, within a millisecond he'll jump in.

Punishment is the root of violence on our planet.

Regardless of our many differences, we all have the same needs. What differs is the strategy for fulfilling these needs.