Labeling and diagnosis is a catastrophic way to communicate. Telling other people what's wrong with them greatly reduces, almost to zero, the probability that we're going to get what we're after.
Marshall B. RosenbergRead
Before we tackle the gangs and the basic story, we have to make sure that we have liberated ourselves from how we have been educated and make sure we are coming from a spirituality of our own choosing.
Interpretation
What this quote means
True liberation requires a personal understanding of spirituality beyond traditional education.
Marshall B. Rosenberg emphasizes the importance of self-liberation from conventional educational constraints, suggesting that one must develop their own spiritual beliefs and understandings before confronting external issues like societal challenges or gangs. This calls for a deep introspection and personal growth that transcends mere academic learning.
Themes
LiberationSpiritualityEducationSelf-AwarenessPersonal Growth
In practice
Example use cases
A motivational speaker could use this quote to encourage individuals to seek their own path in life rather than conforming to societal expectations.
More from Marshall B. Rosenberg
All quotes →Whether I praise or criticize someone's action, I imply that I am their judge, that I'm engaged in rating them or what they have done.
Marshall B. RosenbergRead
In nonviolent communication, no matter what words others may use to express themselves, we simply listen for their observations, feelings, needs, and requests. Then we may wish to reflect back, paraphrasing what we have understood. We stay with empathy, allowing others the opportunity to fully express themselves before we turn our attention to solutions or requests for relief.
Marshall B. RosenbergRead
All that has been integrated into NVC has been known for centuries about consciousness, language, communication skills, and use of power that enable us to maintain a perspective of empathy for ourselves and others, even under trying conditions.
Marshall B. RosenbergRead
The punitive use of force tends to generate hostility and to reinforce resistance to the very behavior we are seeking.
Marshall B. RosenbergRead
Expressing our vulnerability can help resolve conflicts.
Marshall B. RosenbergRead
Similar quotes
To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
E. E. CummingsRead
Not all the blood of beasts On Jewish altars slain, Could give the guilty conscience peace, Or wash away the stain: But Christ, the heav'nly Lamb, Takes all our sins away, A sacrifice of nobler nam' And richer blood than they.
Isaac WattsRead
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.
Martin BuberRead
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
PlutarchRead
If people live in constant fear of death, and if breaking the law is punished by death, then who would dare?
LaoziRead
The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reason and analysis but first of all by living.
Thomas MertonRead