Marshall Rosenberg

What is the purpose of Nonviolent Communication? It’s to help us connect with ourselves and others in a way that makes compassionate giving natural. Now, compassionate giving for me, is when we do something for ourselves or others where our sole intention is to enrich life. We’re not doing it for a reward; we’re not doing it to escape punishment. We’re doing it out of what I think we human beings like more than anything in the world: to contribute to life, to enrich life.

From an audio: ‘Nonviolent Communication’, disk 1, track 3.