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Listening

«Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.»
Author: Dogen | About: Learning, Listening | Keywords: The Voice, unity
«Give advice; if people don't listen, let adversity teach them»
«A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.»
«A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.»
«Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open-hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our spirits expand.»
«A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.»
Author: Wilson Mizner | About: Listening | Keywords: listener, listeners, popular
«Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.»
«Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.»
Author: Simone Weil (Activist, Mystic, Philosopher) | About: Listening | Keywords: affliction
«Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.»
«A good listener is a silent flatterer»
Author: Proverb | About: Listening | Keywords: flatterer, listener, listeners

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