Compassionate Communication | Deep listening 👂
“True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.”
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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
I invite you into this ecology of communication. Pick the flowers, pee in the bushes, throw the stones, watch the clouds, sleep in the shade, and eat the fruit. I welcome you to wriggle and scratch in these pages and find rest and revolution.
Nora Bateson • Combining
The word 'co mmunication ’ is derived from the Latin root 'communis', which means ‘common, public, shared by all or many'. Like blood in a body, sap in a plant or water in a river, communication keeps things moving, and holds the potential to share messages and meanings in new and relevant ways.
Practices • Bioregional Learning Centre
“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
I Am Here For You
Max-Neef's Fundamental Human Needs:
Human needs understood as a system
Development is about people and not about objects
Fundamental human needs are finite, few and classifiable.
Fundamental human needs are universal in all cultures and in all historical periods. What changes, both over time and through cultures, is the way or the means by which the needs are satisfied.
Needs are not the source of unsustainability, satisfiers are – this distinction is key
I Know You Are There And I’m Very Happy