Between the Listening and the Telling
Make a commitment today to listen well. When someone is speaking, listen with your whole body. Listen without trying to form a response. Listen to the words being spoken and listen to the currents underneath the words. Practice listening with compassion.
Rabbi Levy • Journey Through the Wilderness: A Mindfulness Approach to the Ancient Jewish Practice of Counting the Omer
The Lost Art of Good Conversation: A Mindful Way to Connect with Others and Enrich Everyday Life
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The living response has enabled that voice to speak. Teller and listener, each fulfills the other’s expectations. The living tongue that tells the word, the living ear that hears it, bind and bond us in the communion we long for in the silence of our inner solitude
Maria Popova • Telling Is Listening: Ursula K. Le Guin on the Magic of Real Human Conversation
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And checking in, listening and getting to know each other. Blown away by every person’s story. Surprised, delighted and given perspective.
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