listening

Turn off the radio, TV, DVD, iPod, computer and cell phone. Then, listen.

A skilled listener can help people tap into their own wisdom.

I went back every evening, after work, for nearly a year. I learned the meaning of the cud of a leaf and the glisten of wet pebbles, and the special significance of curves and angles. A great deal of the writing was unwritten. Plot three dots on a graph and join them; you now have a curve with certain characteristics. Extend that curve while maintaining the characteristics, and it has meaning, up where no dots were plotted.In just this way I learned to extend the curve of a grass-blade and of a protruding root, of the bent edges of wetness on a drying headstone. I quit smoking so I could sharpen my sense of smell, because the scent of earth after a rain has a clarifying effect on graveyard reading, as if the page were made whiter and the ink darker. I began to listen to the wind, and to the voices of birds and small animals, insects and people; because to the educated ear, every sound is filtered through the story written on graves, and becomes a part of it.("The Graveyard Reader")

I stopped short and sighed as Derek stepped up behind me, arms sliding around my waist. I leaned back against him and rel

Just because someone doesn't respond...doesn't mean they are not Listening.

When anyone tells me I can__ do anything, I__ just not listening any more.

Due to previous lack of systematic assessment of dissociative symptoms, many subjects experience the SCID-D as their first opportunity to describe their symptoms in their own words to a receptive listener.

Sometimes you are not supposed to say anything. Just listen. Let the other person spit it out.

Where the rivers meetyou tell me of your black dreams.Your memories make me uneasy.But I listen because I knowmy listening, like all other listeningallows you to heal.

The person you're most afraid to contradict is yourself.

Oscar__ hobby was saving people. He used to save people all the time, and fix things that were broken and catch people when they were falling. It wasn__ a skill you__ immediately know about or notice. Stevie said that Oscar had a gift and the gift was that he could smell things you wouldn__ imagine would smell of anything- things like sadness and desperation. Things like far and hopelessness.He never made a big deal about it, but he was quiet and confident _ and when you believe in own abilities, you are much more likely to be always ready to act on them, which Oscar always was. Whenever I asked him about it, he claimed that his were not exceptional or extraordinary abilities in the slightest. Everyone, he said, is able to tell when someone is in need of help, but few people really take the time to listen to their instincts, and that, he said, was the only difference between him and a lot of other of people.

Piglet said that Tigger was very Bouncy, and that if they could think of a way of unbouncing him, it would be a Very Good Idea. "Just what I feel," said Rabbit. "What do you say, Pooh?" Pooh opened his eyes with a jerk and said, "Extremely." "Extremely what?" asked Rabbit. "What you were saying," said Pooh. "Undoubtably.

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 __postolate 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.

There is a difference between truly listening and waiting for your turn to talk.

Elizabeth was so sweet this afternoon trying to show P.B. his sitting room. He became absorbed in some jungle prints along the passage and would not come. The corners of her mouth went down after the third attempt & putting both hands on his shoulders she said angelically: __ertie do listen to me._ He kissed her and came at once.

Listen should be on 60-70% and talking or speaking on from 40 up to 30%.

Zane raised his brow. __idn__ I say that yesterday?_ he asked, forcinghimself to be patient. Somehow.__ou say that like you think I listen to you,_ Ty responded instantly, asmile pulling at his lips.

It 'appens to be true. An' if'n yew want ter stay moi friend, yew'd best 'old yer turpitudinous twaddle of a tongue an' listen fer once.