Marshall B. Rosenberg Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• 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.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Respect, Strong, Offering

• Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Empathy, Understanding, Respectful

  "Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life". Book by Marshall B. Rosenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1999.

• Intellectual understanding blocks empathy.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Block, Empathy, Understanding

• The Chinese philosopher Chuang-Tzu stated that true empathy requires listening with the whole being: The hearing that is only in the ears is one thing. The hearing of the understanding is another. But the hearing of the spirit is not limited to any one faculty, to the ear, or to the mind. Hence it demands the emptiness of all the faculties. And when the faculties are empty, then the whole being listens. There is then a direct grasp of what is right there before you that can never be heard with the ear or understood with the mind.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Empathy, Understanding, Listening

• NVC gives us tools and understanding to create a more peaceful state of mind.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Giving, Understanding

• Understanding the other persons' needs does not mean you have to give up on your own needs.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Giving Up, Communication, Mean

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2004). “We Can Work it Out: Resolving Conflicts Peacefully and Powerfully”, p.30, PuddleDancer Press

• 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.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Compassion, Punishment

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2004). “Teaching Children Compassionately: How Students and Teachers Can Succeed with Mutual Understanding”, p.25, PuddleDancer Press

• What evidence is there that we've adequately empathized with the other person? First, when an individual realizes that everything going on within has received full empathic understanding, they will experience a sense of relief. We can become aware of this phenomenon by noticing a corresponding release of tension in our own body.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Empathy, Understanding, Relief

• The best way I can get understanding from another person is to give this person the understanding, too. If I want them to hear my needs and feelings, I first need to empathize.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Giving, Empathy, Understanding

• Understanding and connection can transcend conflict.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Understanding, Connections

• A respectful understanding of another's experience.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Empathy, Understanding, Respectful

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