1. Marshall Rosenberg of Geneva, Switzerland, holds a doctorate in clinical psychology. He is a man of peace recognized throughout the world, and he is founder of the Center for Nonviolent Communication, which is based in California of the United States. I warmly recommend his book Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, PuddleDancer Press, Second Edition, 2005.
2. Guy Corneau, author and Jungian psychoanalyst, L’amour en guerre (Love in war), Montréal, Les Èditions de l’Homme (The Editions of Man), 1996, N’y a-t-il pas d’amour heureux? (Is there no happy love?), Paris, 1997.
3. Guy Corneau, ibid.
4. Guy Corneau, author of Absent Fathers, Lost Sons, L’amour en guerre (Love in war), N’y a-t-il pas d’amour heureux? (Is there no happy love?) and La guérison du cœur (The recovery of the heart).
5. Excerpt from the Tao of Rajneesh.
6. Rainer Maria Rilke, The Book of Hours, Bruxelles, Le cri (The cry), 1989.
7. Michèle Delaunay, L’ambiguïté est le dernier plaisir (Ambiguity is the final pleasure), Arles, Actes Sud (South Acts), 1987.
8. I recommend this book regarding the chapter that has this title in Guy Corneau’s book: N’y a-t-il pas d’amour heureux? (Is there no happy love?), Robert Laffont.
9. This exchange has been stated in “laboratory” Nonviolent Communication to better facilitate understanding. In day-to-day life, with some practice, one can clearly formulate the various phases of feelings and needs in ordinary language.
10. Jacques Salomé, If Only I’d Listen to Myself, Montréal, Les Èditions de l’Homme (The Editions of Man), 1990.
11. Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist, Paris, Anne Carrière, 1994.
12. Alice Miller, For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence, Vendôme, Le fil rouge (The red thread), PUF.
13. Christian Bobin, The Very Lowly, Paris, Folio.
14. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, Paris, Gallimard,2000.
15. Marshall Rosenberg, op. cit.
16. Excerpt from Gérard de Nerval (Gerard of Nerval).
17. This expression is from Guy Corneau. Any creation is the result of a movement and therefore of friction: the violin bow on the strings, the fingers on the clay, the quill on the paper, the body in space.
18. Vincent Houba, architect, presented a conference titled En quête de toit, en quête de soi (In quest of the heights, in quest of oneself).
19. Christian Bobin, La souveraineté du vide (The sovereignty of the void), Paris, Folio.
20. Marshall Rosenberg, op. cit.