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Listen Quotes

    “Hearing is one thing—listening is altogether different; they are worlds apart. Hearing is a physical phenomenon; you hear because you have ears. Listening is a spiritual phenomenon. You listen when you have attention, when your inner being joins with your ears.”

    Osho, Everyday Osho (Page 232)

      “How to talk to people.

      1. Listen.

      2. Look them in the eyes (I struggle here).

      3. Set your phone on silent & leave it face down on the table.

      4. Don’t make small talk (everyone knows it’s cold).

      5. Listen.

      6. Don’t agree just for the sake of agreeing.

      7. Don’t disagree just for the sake of disagreeing.

      8. Listen.

      9. Say something interesting.

      10. Leave them better than you found them.

      11. Listen.”

      Cole Schafer (January Black), One Minute, Please? (Page 39)

        “God doesn’t talk. He listens. That’s why he’s the best of us. Nobody listens. But God listens. Or, at least, I’d like to think he listens.”

        Cole Schafer

          “Say your son or daughter jumps into the car after soccer practice and says, ‘I hate it. I’m never going back. I quit.’ This always strikes a nerve with parents who are likely to respond with: ‘You can’t quit. Where’s your team spirit?’ or ‘Oh my God, what happened? I’m going to call the coach!’ or ‘Are you hungry? Let’s go eat. You’ll feel better.’ None of that is listening. Grilling them about what happened is interrogating. Telling them they shouldn’t feel how they feel is minimizing. And changing the subject is just maddening. Kids, like all of us, just want to be heard. Try instead, ‘Have you always felt this way?’ or ‘What would quitting mean?’ Look at it as an invitation to have a conversation, not as something to be fixed or get upset about.”

          Kate Murphy, You’re Not Listening

            “You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.”

            M. Scott Peck, via Sunbeams (Page 106)

              "Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." ~ Jimi Hendrix

              Listen to your children – every time.

                Listen to your children - every time

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                “Listen earnestly to anything your children want to tell you, no matter what. If you don’t listen eagerly to the little stuff when they are little, they won’t tell you the big stuff when they are big, because to them all of it has always been big stuff.” ~ Catherine M. Wallace