Most of us live in a Jackal world where we take turns using the other person as a waste basket for our words.

Fear of punishment diminishes self-esteem and goodwill.

The objective of Nonviolent Communication is not to change people and their behavior in order to get our way: it is to establish relationships based on honesty and empathy, which will eventually fulfill everyone's needs.

NVC is interested in learning that is motivated by reverence for life, by a desire to learn skills, to contribute better to our own well-being and the well-being of others.

My ultimate goal is to spend as many of my moments in life as I can in that world that the poet Rumi talks about, 'a place beyond rightness and wrongness.

What bores the listener bores the speaker too.

They have most likely said it because they have an unmet need.