Today marks five years since Marshall Rosenberg's death. Marshall has been one of the most influential and beloved teachers of mine. He was a creator of Nonviolent or Compassionate Communication, which has fundamentally changed my life and  has also been a catalyst for the development of my spiritual practice and journey of awakening. Marshall found a playful way of teaching NVC by using puppets of giraffe and jackal. He used the giraffe as a symbol/metaphor for the language

Words are Windows (Or They’re Walls) I feel so sentenced by your words I feel so judged and sent away Before I go I got to know Is that what you mean to say? Before I rise to my defense, Before I speak in hurt or fear, Before I build that wall of words, Tell me, did I really hear? Words are windows, or they’re walls, They sentence us, or set us free. When I speak and when I hear, Let the love light shine through me. There are things I need to say, Things that mean so much to

''Empathic connection is an understanding of the heart, where we see the beauty in the other person❤️'' ~ Marshall B. Rosenberg #soulfulgiraffe #GordanaStankovic #MarshallRosenberg #NVC #nonviolentcommunication #empathy #empaticconnection #heart #heartconnection

Many people when they first hear the above quote of Marshall Rosenberg pull a face in a kind of "what?!" expression or even cringe with unease. What is Marshall advocating with this quote above? Mediocrity? No, for sure not. The way I understand and live by this quote is, that if something is important to me, if I am really passionate about something, then I need to try do it, not wait for the perfect moment, or the moment when I have 'perfected the art' and I believe I'd be

Soulful Giraffe wishes to devote this drawing to Mahatma (Sanskrit: ''Great Soul'') Gandhi, who was born on October the 2nd 150 years ago. May Gandhi's legacy of non-violence, peace and love be our inspiration and may each of us choose with every thought and action ''to be the change we want to see in the world.'' #Gandhi #soulfulgiraffe #inspiration #inspirationalquote #peace #nonviolence #love #livingpeacefully #nonviolentcommunication #NVC

Strictly speaking above is not a quote by Marshall Rosenberg, but rather of Marshall quoting his grandmother. According to him, his grandmother was a natural-born nonviolent or compassionate communication practitioner:. "She thought in terms of what people feel and what they need", feeding those that were hungry and offering shelter to those without a roof. It seems that by practicing that connection with the deepest human needs Marshall's grandmother was able to to choose to

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