Tragically, one of the rarest commodities in our culture is empathy. People are hungry for empathy, They don't know how to ask for it.
In our culture, most of us have been trained to ignore our own wants and to discount our needs.
We need empathy to give empathy.
Empathy lies in our ability to be present without opinion.
Learning is too precious to be motivated by coercive tactics.
NVC requires us to be continually conscious of the beauty within ourselves and other people.