The mountains are great stone bells; they clang together like nuns. Who shushed the stars? There are a thousand million galaxies easily seen in the Palomar reflector; collisions between and among them do, of course, occur. But these collisions are very long and silent slides. Billions of stars sift amont each other untouched, too distant even to be moved, heedless as always, hushed. The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out. But God knows I have tried.
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What have we been doing all these centuries but trying to call God back to the mountain, or, failing that, raise a peep out of anything that isn't us? What is the difference between a cathedral and a physics lab? Are not they both saying: Hello? We spy on whales and on interstellar radio objects; we starve ourselves and pray till we're blue.
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Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation-and for me the most important part is listening to God's replies.
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I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
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May you hear the voice of wisdom. Listening, may you act with trust.
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Listening is so basic that we take it for granted.
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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.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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Vandals listen only when others are stronger. If vandals are equal or strongerTheir word is the last word.
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Be aware of the high notes, of the blissful faces and their soft messages, and listen for the silent message of a highly decorated gift.
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One should not honour one's own religion and condemn the religions of others, but one should honour other's religions for this or that reason. So doing, one help's one's own religion to grow and render service to the religions of others too. In acting otherwise one digs the grace of one's own religion and does harm to other religions. Whosoever honours his own religion and condemns other religions, does so indeed through devotion to his own religion, thinking 'I will glorify my own religion'. But on the contrary, in so he injures his own religion more gravely. So concord is good: Let all listen, and be willing to listen to the doctrines professed by others.
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You can listen to silence, Reuven. I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own. It talks to me sometimes. I feel myself alive in it. It talks. And I can hear it.. You have to want to listen to it, and then you can hear it. It has a strange, beautiful texture. It doesn't always talk. Sometimes - sometimes it cries, and you can hear the pain of the world in it. It hurts to listen to it then. But you have to.
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It is silent, an anagram for listen. That is what I do. Listen while she remains silent.
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Silence made space for other people's words, which was important for those who needed to be listened to.
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It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear.
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Before you decide if someone is beautiful close your eyes and listen.
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The intimacy that arises in listening and speaking truth is only possible if we can open to the vulnerability of our own hearts. Breathing in, contacting the life that is right here, is our first step. Once we have held ourselves with kindness, we can touch others in a vital and healing way.
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Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty.
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For a woman's words to wound would require a man to listen first!
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I think she's brave. I think that nobody has ever believed what she could be capable of. All her life, nobody was listening.
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If God places a child before you, and you are too busy to wield either a positive or negative influence.. You just did the later! You communicated that the child doesn't matter and isn't important.
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I had trouble listening to adults who didn't really mean anything that they said; it was as if their language poured into my ears only to drain right out a little spigot in the back of my head.
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Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals. (attr to J. Isham)
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It's not at all hard to understand a person; it's only hard to listen without bias.
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I said what I wanted to say. You heard what you wanted to hear.
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