263 Quotes by Marshall B. Rosenberg

Empathy allows us to re-perceive our world in a new way and move forward.

Power-Over leads to punishment and violence. Power-With leads to compassion and understanding, and to learning motivated by reverence for life rather than fear, guilt, shame, or anger.

You’ll find people less threatening if you hear what they’re needing rather than what they’re thinking about you.

To practice the process of conflict resolution, we must completely abandon the goal of getting people to do what we want.

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.

Never hear what a jackal-speaking person thinks, especially what they think about you.

Our ability to offer empathy can allow us to stay vulnerable, defuse potential violence, help us hear the word ‘no’ without taking it as a rejection, revive lifeless conversation, and even hear the feelings and needs expressed through silence.

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

Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing. Instead of offering empathy, we often have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position or feeling. Empathy, however, calls upon us to empty our mind and listen to others with our whole being.