People were created to be loved.
Things were created to be used.
The reason why the world is in chaos is because
things are being loved and
people are being used.
~Dalai Lama
A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication with Oren Jay Sofer
Finding your voice, learning how to say what you mean, and how to listen deeply:
this is one of the most rewarding journeys you can take.” –
Oren Jay Sofer
Oren Jay Sofer holds a degree in Comparative Religion from Columbia University and is a member of the Spirit Rock Teacher’s Council. He is also a Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication, a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner for healing trauma, and he is the Senior Program Developer at Mindful Schools. Sofer is the author of Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication
- The importance of slowing down
- Marshall Rosenberg’s system of nonviolent communication
- How our behaviors can be viewed as an attempt to meet a deeper need
- Entering relationships from a sense of deprivation vs. a place of growth
- The importance of relational awareness
- The undervalued skill of healthy communication
- Why intention is the single most important ingredient in dialogue
- Martin Buber’s distinction between the I-Thou vs. I-It relationship
- The importance of the “do over”
- How to heal after a breakup
- The importance of forgiveness and how it happens on its own time schedule
Martin Buber’s distinction between the I-Thou vs. I-It relationship
Martin Buber’s distinction between the I-Thou vs. I-It relationship
” Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of people who are oppressing them.
We Think We Listen, but that might be a thought!
https://empathymatters.org/now/active-listening-carl-rogers/
Understanding this could greatly reduce human suffering.
A EmpathyMatters.org/now/ifs-spirit
“The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the seed of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is already dead.
~Albert Einstein
..::”For me the Jewish religion, like all others, is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions… And the Jewish people… have no different quality for me than all other people”. He explicitly stated he could not see anything “chosen” about them. ~ Albert Einstein
Einstein viewed the “cult of individuals” as unjustified and often in bad taste, noting that it was unfair to select a few for “boundless admiration” while ignoring everyone else.
”Refusing humility traps you in delusion.♡ Love Albert Einstein … Only a comic book bible would suggest a cultish behavior to genoc~~ everyone else, but some special chosen ones?~ OMG
Imagine living on the only known planet in the infinite universe, where the mortified rich get richer by colonizing the people to follow debunked dogma, repeating an ancient doctrine of war, projected onto innocent children, again and again, the rich get richer, and the children inherit a brutal indoctrination instead of Living Sacred Life. https://empathymatters.org/armageddon/
Secret History: How Evil Triumphs:
