Quotes About Understanding

Two things distinguish nonviolent actions from violent actions. First, you don't see an enemy and second, your intention is not to make the other side suffer.

Fix-it jackals can't wait to fix it, because they don't know how to enjoy pain. And until you learn how to enjoy pain, you can't enjoy intimacy.

When you need empathy, you cannot give empathy.

Remember that whatever anyone does, it is an effort to meet a need.

Anger can be a wonderful wake up call to help you understand what you need and what you value.

Of those who say nothing, few are silent.

When we are angry, killing people is too superficial.

There is a simplicity that exists on the far side of complexity, and there is a communication of sentiment and attitude not to be discovered by careful exegesis of a text.

One of the large consolations for experiencing anything unpleasant is the knowledge that one can communicate it.

Understanding and connection can transcend conflict.

Upset? Ask yourself what this person does that is a trigger for judging them?

You don't have to explain yourself. Let your weakness be yours. Let your strength be everybody's. You understand the principle?

Once you have access to key people in an organization, if you go into a meeting with enemy images of those people - then you are not going to connect.

The greatest communication skill is paying value to others.

Interpretations, criticisms, diagnoses, and judgments of others are actually alienated expressions of our unmet needs.

That which is communicated, i.e., understood, is metaphysical. The means of communication is physical.

The Muslim community should not be treated as a problematic community, but treated as a community that is willing to play its role in the mainstream.

Your communication should not be for you. Your communication should be a service vehicle to reach the other person. Talking is for the other person. Listening is for you.

Use the words "I feel because I" to remind us that what we feel it isn't because of what the other person did, but because of a choice I've made.

Understanding human nature. Perception. That's how I see acting - perception and communication.

The more we use words that in any way imply criticism, the more difficult it is for people to stay connected to the beauty within themselves.

Communication must become total and conscious before we can stop it.

We know the speaker has received adequate empathy when a. we sense a release of tension, or b. the flow of words comes to a halt.

No communication takes place until the other person feels heard