Quotes by Marshall Rosenberg

The kind of spirituality I value is one in which you get great joy out of contributing to life, not just sitting & meditating, although meditation is certainly valuable. But from the meditation, from the resulting consciousness, I would like to see people in action creating the world that they want to live in.

"Everything we do is in service of our needs. When this one concept is applied to our view of others, we'll see that we have no real enemies, that what others do to us is the best possible thing they know to do to get their needs met." --Marshall Rosenberg

"I'm interested in learning that's motivated by reverence for life, that's motivated by a desire to learn skills, to learn new things that help us to better contribute to our own well-being and the well-being of others.
And what fills me with great sadness is any learning that I see motivated by coercion."

The Indian philosopher J. Krishnamurti once remarked that observing without evaluating is the highest form of human intelligence.  When I first read this statement, the thought, "What nonsense!" should throught my mind before I realized that I had just made an evaluation.