Abhijit Pradhan
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Abhijit Pradhan
The quieter you become, the more you can hear. - Ram Dass
“Don’t talk, unless you can improve upon the silence.”
– Jorge Luis Borges
– Jorge Luis Borges
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” - Rumi
The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.
Maria Popova • Figuring
“Listen Like a Sponge,” or a picture of an ear and a sponge, in relevant places.
Jan Chozen Bays MD • How to Train a Wild Elephant
- The basic rule for practicing this art is the complete concentration of the listener.
- Nothing of importance must be on his mind, he must be optimally free from anxiety as well as from greed.
- He must possess a freely-working imagination which is sufficiently concrete to be expressed in words.
- He must be endowed with a capacity for empathy with another
Maria Popova • Erich Fromm’s 6 Rules of Listening: The Great Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist on the Art of Unselfish Understanding
So, the question that keeps me up at night is, what are us humans gonna do with all of our newfound time? Which brings me back to Japan, and this quaint Kyoto restaurant I found myself sitting in one evening. There were 10 seats, one chef/owner and one apprentice, and the most incredibly crafted experience. It wasn’t expensive, but everything was i
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