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"A skilled listener can help people tap into their own wisdom."
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"When we want to talk, we can instead listen, and let our attentiveness to another's need to speak be our silent statement."
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"Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind."
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Personal Development
"He knew most men only heard what they wanted to hear, and he had no desire to be like most men."
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Personal Development
"How often have I noticed or, indeed, listened to him? We talk, but do I actually listen, or is our conversation mainly a question of my waiting for him to stop and for it to be my turn to say something? For how many of us is that what conversation means - the setting up of our lines?"
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Personal Development
"Learn to listen, not just hear. Listening is an art."
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Personal Development
"The key to good listening isn't technique, it's desire. Until we truly want to understand the other person, we'll never listen well."
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Personal Development
"Mostly, people are looking for someone to listen to them. Someone willing to grant them time, to listen to their dramas and difficulties. This is what I call the 'apostolate of the ear, and it is important. Very important. I feel compelled to say to confessors: talk, listen with patience, and above all tell people that God loves them."
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"I remember lying on the floor of the living room with headphones on when I was four or five years old, listening to the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack."
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Personal Development
"There is something very basic to the sense of listening. The sense of hearing is the only one that operates totally from vibrations, without other physical or chemical reactions to receive the sensations."
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"Because of the changes in the Padres team I played with last year, I felt like a veteran recently when I worked out with Jason Kendall and he told me he's liked listening to my records since he was a kid!"
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"Every missed rite of passage leads to a new rigidification of the personality."
Security
"True baptism allows us to reframe, and contain, the reality of evil, without needing to blame anyone else, without any need for shame or vengeance. We are all in this together, and our common wound shows itself in different ways."
Forgiveness
"Forgiveness becomes central to Jesus' teaching, because to receive reality is always to 'bear it, to bear with reality for not meeting all of our needs. To accept reality is to forgive reality for being what it is, almost day by day and sometimes even hour by hour. Such a practice creates patient and humble people.Forgiveness reveals three goodnesses simultaneously. When we forgive, we choose the goodness of the other over their faults, we experience God's goodness flowing through ourselves, and we also experience our own capacity for goodness in a way that almost surprises us. We are finally in touch with a much Higher Power, and we slowly learn how to draw upon this Infinite Source."
Forgiveness
"His Kingship, precisely because it is so broad, so total, is doomed to be rejected by anybody who is still into tribalism, or small belonging systems. We don't really like the big Kingdom if it gets in the way of our smaller kingdoms, and it always does."
Authority
"Every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us."
Forgiveness
"You ironically have to have a very strong ego structure to let go of your ego. You need to struggle with the rules more than a bit before you throw them out. You only internalize values by butting up against external values for a while."
Ego
"Jesus was trying to present value of a life of vulnerability in which one would have practical and needed experience of the same. It would be a life without baggage, so one would learn to accept others and their culture instead of always carrying along our own country's assumptions and calling them the Gospel."
Theology
"Church practice has been more influenced by Plato than by Jesus. We invariably prefer the universal synthesis, the answer that settles all the dust and resolves every question even when it is not entirely true over the mercy and grace of God."
Theology
"In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt you."
Aging
"It's true all the time everywhere or it's not true! And that one truth is always Mystery."
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