To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is small wonder that people who have been demanding all their lives to be heard so often fall speechless when confronted with one who gravely agrees to lend an ear. Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts. But once offered these conditions, he becomes frigthened. -Robert C. Murphy.
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The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.
The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold read more
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life...When we listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other...and it is this little creative fountain inside us that begins to spring and cast up new thoughts and unexpected laughter and wisdom. ...Well, it is when people really listen to us, with quiet facinated attention, that the little fountain begins to work again, to accelerate in the most surprising way. -Brenda Ueland.
Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals. -J. read more
Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals. -J. Isham.
The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.
The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.
He holds him with his glittering eye--
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And listens like a three years' read more
He holds him with his glittering eye--
. . . .
And listens like a three years' child.
It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance.
From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance.
A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore read more
A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.
It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the read more
It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become oblivious of their utterances.
