Once you can clearly describe what you are reacting to, free of your interpretation or evaluation of it, … - Marshall B. Rosenberg

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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

Once you can clearly describe what you are reacting to, free of your interpretation or evaluation of it, other people are less likely to be defensive when they hear it.

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When our communication supports compassionate giving and receiving, happiness replaces violence and grieving.

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When you ride the wave, the thrill is so exhilarating that you forget everything else. You live in the moment where nothing else matters, so intent on riding the wave perfectly that you and the wave become one. Pain and worry disappear, replaced by euphoria, akin to flow. Similarly, when giving empathy, you want to strive for this kind of total presence for the person you are listening to.

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Punishment is the root of violence on our planet.

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The Indian philosopher J. Krishnamurti once remarked that observing without evaluating is the highest form of human intelligence. When I first read this statement, the thought, 'What nonsense!' shot through my mind before I realized that I had just made an evaluation.

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Learning is too precious to be motivated by coercive tactics.

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As an artist grows older, he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult, as he had when a child

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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

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In our thoughts and words we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths.

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You had censorship. If you brought a manuscript to the publisher, you knew he would suggest changes. If you wanted to write and speak what you thought had to be written and spoken, you had to act against all these suppressive rules.

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