While we may not consider the way we talk to be 'violent,' our words often lead to hurt and pain, whether for others or for ourselves.

NVC is a reminder; to focus our attention where we are most likely to get our needs met.

We are this divine energy. It's not something we have to attain. We just have to realize it, to be present to it.

The spirituality that we need to develop for social change is one that mobilizes us for social change.

The number one reason that we don't get our needs met, we don't express them. We express judgments. If we do express needs, the number two reasons we don't our needs met, we don't make clear requests.

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 we ask two questions, we will see that punishment never works. First: What do we want the other person to do? Second: What do we want the other person's reasons to be for doing as we request?