Compassionate Communication | Deep listening đź‘‚
Listen! Slow down! The in between moments are trying to tell you something.
instagram.com “Every conversation, as its foundation, has an invitation in it. When the invitation stops, the conversation really stops.”
— David Whyte
Tim Ferriss • David Whyte, Poet — Spacious Ease, Irish Koans, Writing in Delirium, and Revelations From a Yak Manger
On some nights, when all her friends had gone home, she would sit alone for a long time in the old theater’s large, stone rotunda listening to the deepening silence while the starry sky arched high above her.
Whenever she did this, she imagined that she was sitting in the middle of a giant ear that was listening in on the entire cosmos, and she
... See moreMichael Ende • Momo
Both communication and community have the same Latin root, communicare , meaning to impart, share, or make common.
Thich Nhat Hanh • The Art of Communicating
“True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.”
―
Rick Atkinson,
An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943
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Rick Atkinson,
An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943
A quote from An Army at Dawn
Although a few of these pieces have been previously published in other places, I never meant for any of them to stand alone. Nothing in an ecology stands alone.
It is necessary to have an ensemble of all sorts of communication to meet ecology—intellectual, emotional, storied, non-verbal, and physical. The communications must be diverse enough to
... See moreNora Bateson • Combining
Words Are Windows
(or They’re Walls)
I feel so sentenced by your words,
I feel so judged and sent away,
Before I go I’ve got to know,
Is that what you mean to say?
Before I rise to my defense,
Before I speak in hurt or fear,
Before I build that wall of words,
Tell me, did I really hear?
Words are windows, or they’re walls,
They sentence
... See moreMarshall B. Rosenberg • Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships
... See moreIn a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be.
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