A Warrior of the Light does not waste his time listening to provocations, he has a destiny to fulfill.

~ Paulo Coelho

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When all seems hopeless and all has gone silent, that’s Destiny turning down the music so that all may hear our response to life’s great storms, giving our response the chance to echo throughout eternity with the level of greatness it deserves.

~ A.j. Darkholme

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The train will not find you. You must find the train, its pulse, its way of being beyond obvious rock and sway. The train’s pulse is deeper than movement. If you listen, you will hear the song of the train, and when you find the song, you will find the engine, the heart, the blood, the pulse. This is how we create.

~ Cathleen Margaret

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Asking questions is an opportunity for creativity and personal expression, both for the person asking and the person answering.

~ Sharon Salzberg

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Nothing listens as well as a blank page.

~ Shaun Hick

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Communication is really a two-way process with listenining being as important as speaking. Enhancing one's listening skills is therefore as important as enhancing one's speaking skills.

~ Vishwas Chavan

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Listen to your own intuit. Have stronger wisdom to judge your own belief and things that you desire to do NOT what others want you to do.

~ Ashish Patel

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Other people feel love when we listen without judging and accept them without demanding change. We all desperately require these basic needs. When we can do this for another, we are indeed that person’s angel.

~ David W. Earle

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There is more to hear in what is not said.

~ Joyce Rachelle

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Vandals listen only when others are stronger.If vandals are equal or strongerTheir word is the last word.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

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You don't realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense. You have to pay much more attention to everything else when you can't understand the words. Once comprehension comes, so much else falls away. You then rely on their words, and words aren't always the most reliable thing.

~ Lily King

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Focus your attention on the quality of your words, and not the quantity, because few sensible talks attracts millions of listeners more than a thousand gibberish.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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Silence made space for other people's words, which was important for those who needed to be listened to.

~ Rachel Simon

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Ricky just listens. He isn't shocked. He isn't surprised. He listens to me because he knows. He knows the shame and the guilt and the sorrow and the rage. And he does not judge me. He just listens.

~ Emily Andrews

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There was a patient who sat with her family in a circle around her, all holding hands. Sister Philomena asked if they would like to join her for prayers and they said yes, they would. They closed their eyes as Sister Philomena whispered the words and I thought this must be the nearest humans get to whatever God is, when they hold hands and listen.

~ Rachel Joyce

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Prayer is actually setting out a tuning fork. All you can really do in the spiritual life is to get tuned to receive the always present message. Once you are tuned, you will receive, and it as nothing do to with worthiness or the group you belong to but only the inner resonance and a capacity for mutuality. The Sender is absolutely and always present and broadcasting; the only change is with the receiver station.

~ John Predmore

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…when you lonely is the best time to pray, to speak to the Lord, and most important, to listen to the Lord…

~ Andrew Galasetti

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Good listening places us on an edifice of learning complex human behavior.

~ Balroop Singh

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A good listener is one who always pays attention, not to gain, but to learn.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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Don't ever get to the point where you can't be taught because life is a classroom and everyone owns a pen.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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Sometimes your belief system is really your fears attached to rules.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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Sometimes the best way to learn a lesson isn't just hearing the words, but putting it into practice by experimenting with it and finding its truth for yourself instead of taking someone else’s word for it.

~ A.j. Darkholme

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We all need to humble ourselves from time to time and expose ourselves to new perspectives and ideas, even those of the non-experts, or else our growth potential gets weighed down with the ignorance of ego and habit.

~ A.j. Darkholme

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We teach what we need to learn. And we teach it until we get it.

~ Irene Tomkinson

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I tend to avoid people who always have something to say … and those who expect me to always have something to say.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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If you can sit with your pain, listen to your pain and respect your pain — in time you will move through your pain.

~ Bryant Mcgill

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You have permission to walk away from anything that doesn't feel right. Trust your instincts and listen to your inner-voice — it's trying to protect you.

~ Bryant Mcgill

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A friend asks, Tell me one word which is significant in any kinds of relationship. Another friend says, LISTEN!

~ Santosh Kalwar

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It is precisely when we hear little from our partner which frightens, shocks, or sickens us that we should begin to be concerned, for this may be the surest sign that we are being gently lied to or shielded from the other’s imagination, whether out of kindness or from a touching fear of losing our love. It may mean that we have, despite ourselves, shut our ears to information that fails to conform to our hopes — hopes which will thereby be endangered all the more. My view of human nature is that all of us are just holding it together in various ways — and that’s okay, and we just need to go easy with one another, knowing that we’re all these incredibly fragile beings.

~ Alain De Botton

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When you are in psychological distress and someone really hears you without passing judgement on you, without trying to take responsibility for you, without trying to mold you, it feels damn good!

~ Carl R. Rogers

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You know why I like to talk to you, Delia? You never interrupt with your experiences. Not jiggling your foot till you get a chance to jump in with your life history.

~ Anne Tyler

Anne Tyler Compassion Listening Relationship

Edward knew what it was like to say over and over again the names of those you had left behind. He knew what it was like to miss someone. And so he listened. And in his listening, his heart opened wide and then wider still. (page 103)

~ Kate Dicamillo

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The real warriors in this world are the ones that see the details of another's soul. They see the transparency behind walls people put up. They stand on the battlefield of life and expose their heart's transparency, so other's can finish the day with hope. They are the sensitive souls that understand that before they could be a light they first had to feel the burn.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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To attempt to describe how music pervades and flavors a life feels a little like an invasion of privacy, even if the privacy is my own. Listening to music,...is finally the most inward of acts--so inward that even language, even the language of thought, can come to seem intrusive...After all these procedures the unbreachable mysteriousness of music remains intact. The book can never be more than an interruption. Afterward, the listening begins again, to generate, in turn, other and completely different books.

~ Geoffrey O'brien

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When you lose your ego, you win. It really is that simple.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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I think that’s what Toni Morrison and Alice Walker understand, the secret language of women. That it’s not a secret at all; men just don’t know how to listen.

~ Marlon James

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The fact that you have access to the microphone doesn't mean you know everything. There are others listening to you, who know more things than you do, but do not have access to the platform to say it.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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There is something divine, mystical, magical and unexplainable in the universe that is listening and responding to each of us.

~ Bryant Mcgill

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There is a kind of listening with half an ear that presumes already to know what the other person has to say. It is an impatient, inattentive listening, that despises the brother and is only waiting for a chance to speak and thus get rid of the other person. This is no fulfillment of our obligation, and it is certain that here too our attitude toward our brother only reflects our relationship to God. It is little wonder that we are no longer capable of the greatest service of listening that God has committed to us, that of hearing our brother's confession, if we refuse to give ear to our brother on lesser subjects. Secular education today is aware that often a person can be helped merely by having someone who will listen to him seriously, and upon this insight it has constructed its own soul therapy, which has attracted great numbers of people, including Christians. But Christians have forgotten that the ministry of listening has been committed to them by Him who is Himself the great listener and whose work they should share. We should listen with the ears of God that we may speak the Word of God.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Cruel people offer pity when they no longer feel threatened. However, kind people offer compassion and understanding regardless.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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