~The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention... A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words~ Rachel Naomi Remen
~I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen~ Ernest Hemingway
~When I have been listened to and when I have been heard, I am able to re-perceive my world in a new way and to go on. It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens, how confusions that seem irremediable turn into relatively clear flowing streams when one is heard. I have deeply appreciated the times that I have experienced this sensitive, empathic, concentrated listening~ Carl R. Rogers
~Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand! Author Unknown
~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
How very true. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteHi Kate. Thanks for stopping by. Many Blessings!
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