When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.” - Karl A. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. “Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” - Leo Buscaglia I wonder if you have ever really listened to your child, to your wife or husband, or to a bird? I wonder if you have ever listened to the mind as it watches a sunset, or if you have read a poem with an attitude of listening? If we know how to listen, that very listening is an action in which the miracle of understanding takes place.” - J. “It seems to me that very few of us ever do listen. Seek first to understand, then to be understood." - Stephen Covey "He was interesting because he was interested." - Gore Vidal on Norman Mailer We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.” - Margaret J. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. “We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.” - Barbara Deming "We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that something deep inside us is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of trust, sacred to our touch." - e.e. How much we can do for each other.” - Alex Noble “Oh, the miraculous energy that flows between two people who care enough to get beyond surfaces and games, who are willing to take the risks of being totally open, of listening, of responding with the whole heart. “So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.” - Jiddu Krishnamurti “Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.” Ambrose Bierce - The Devil’s Dictionary “If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.” - Marge Piercy, author “What people really need is a good listening to.” - Mary Lou Casey “The only difference between a flower and a weed is judgement.” - Anon “The first duty of love is to listen.” - Paul Tillich “The ear is the road to the heart.” - Voltaire If there is any reaction, both are transformed.” - Carl Jung “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances. The best way to understand people is to listen.” - Ralph Nichols (Founding member of the International Listening Association (ILA), Known by the ILA as the "Father of the Field of Listening") “The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. “The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.” - Richard Moss Sit with them and have a drink.” - Lemony Snicket “Someone feeling wronged is like someone feeling thirsty. We are constantly being re-created.” - Brenda Ueland When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other.
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