Simply Allow

People to Speak Without Interruption

A L O H A !

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" Shoulder the sky, my lad,
and drink your ale. "

 

A. E. Housman

" Nowadays most men lead lives
of noisy desperation. "

James Thurber

" Now all my teachers are dead
except silence. " 

W.S. Merwin

" Silence

is the true friend

that never betrays. "

Confucius

 " An inability to stay quiet

is one of the most conspicuous failings

of mankind. "

Walter Bagehot

" Silence is a source of great strength. "

Lao Tzu

" Listening is not 

waiting to talk. "

Scott Ginsberg

" Every person in this life

has something to teach me—

and as soon as I accept that,

I open myself to truly listening. "

 Catherine Doucette

" Deep listening, compassionate listening

is not listening with the purpose of analyzing

or even uncovering what has happened in the past.

You listen first of all

in order to give the other person relief,

a chance to speak out,
to feel that someone finally understands him or her.

Deep listening is the kind of listening

that helps us to keep
compassion alive

while the other speaks…

During this time you have in mind only one idea,

one desire: 

to listen

in order to give the other person

the chance to speak out

and suffer less. 

This is your only purpose.

Other things like analyzing,
understanding the past,

can be a by-produce of this work.

But first of all

listen with compassion. "

Thich Nhat Hanh

 

" The most basic of all human needs 

is the need to understand

and be understood.
 The best way to understand people 

is to listen to them. "

Ralph Nichols

" To truly listen

is to risk being changed

forever. "

Sakej Henderson

 

 

" An enemy is a person

whose story we have not heard. "

Gene Knudsen Hoffman

" Wisdom is the reward

you get

for a lifetime of listening

when you’d have preferred to talk. "

Doug Larson

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