Visdomsord

Her kan du finde citater og visdomsord til inspiration. De handler om Ikkevoldelig Kommunikation, spiritualitet, selvrefleksion og fred.

“Hvis man kender sig selv, har man ingen fjender.”
– Sun Tzu, fra bogen “The art of war”, som blev skrevet for 2500 år siden.

“Det er en pointe, at det eneste, der er at gøre i en konflikt, det er at få talt om den, hvor pinagtigt det end kan være. Der er ingen vej udenom. Der er kun en vej ud af konflikten, og det er igennem den”.
– Else Hammerich

“If you’re grateful, you’re not fearful. If you’re not fearful, you’re not violent.”
– David Steindl-Rast

“Work for life and life works for you.”
– Marshall B. Rosenberg

“It is better to take imperfect action than no action at all.”
– Penny Spawforth

“NVC is a way of life that masquerades as a communication technique.”
– Kit Miller

“When you listen with an open heart, pain, despondency and hopelessness are transformed to joy, empowerment and hope.”
– Jessica H. Hardoon

“Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.”
– Marge Piercy

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
– Anais Nin

“Yesterday I was clever so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise so I am changing myself.”
-Rumi-

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive.
And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
– Harold Whitman

“We don’t see the world as it is, we see it as we are.”
– Anais Nin

“I teorien er teori og praksis det samme. I praksis er det ikke.”
– Yogi Berra

“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.”
– Marie Curie

“Intet kan eksistere uden orden. Intet kan opstå uden kaos.”
– Albert Einstein

“When we blame others we give up the power to change ourselves.”
– Marshall B. Rosenberg

“We inflict pain on others as a way of avoiding our own pain.
This accounts for most of the abuse and cruelty in our world.
To end this endless cycle of abuse, we must master the art of right relationship with our feelings.
We have to feel and experience our feelings fully and responsibly without being identified with the story woven into the feelings.
This is only possible from Presence”.
– Leonard Jacobson

“Resenting someone is as rational as trying to kill someone by putting poison in their glass and then drinking it!”
– Author unknown

“Hvis bare det var så enkelt! Hvis der kun var onde mennesker som på en eller anden snigende måde var forpligtet til kun at udføre onde handlinger, og at det blot var nødvendigt at adskille dem fra resten af os og udslette dem!
Men den linie som deler godt og ondt skærer gennem hjertet på alle mennesker.
Og hvem er villig til at ødelægge en del af sit eget hjerte?”
– Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don’t blame the lettuce.
You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun.
You never blame the lettuce.
Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person.
But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce.
Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument.
That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding.
If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“When we blame others we give up the power to change ourselves.”
– Marshall B. Rosenberg

“You’re biggest jackal is your best guru.”
– Marshall B. Rosenberg

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase “each other”
doesn’t make any sense.”
– Rumi

“Hvis vi ikke mener at vores egne behov er vigtige, er det heller ikke sikkert andre gør det.”
– Marshall B. Rosenberg

“Det andre gør kan godt være stimulus til vores følelser, men ikke årsagen.”
– Marshall B. Rosenberg

“Folk foruroliges ikke over tingene, men af det syn de anlægger på dem.”
– Epitet

“Gennem dig bliver universet bevidst om sig selv.”
– Eckhart Tolle

“Empathy lies in our ability to be present without opinion.”
– Marshall B. Rosenberg