Listening Quote by Charles Olson

“No one can understand himself, for to do that he would have to get outside himself; the subject of the knowing and willing activity…

— Otto Weininger

“The person in whose presence you stay in the secrets will determine where you will stay in the open.”

— ANIKOR Daniel

“The master observes the world but trusts his inner vision. He allows things to come and go. He prefers what is within to what…

— Lao-Tzu

“He who is subjected to a field of visibility, and who knows it, assumes responsibility for the constraints of power; he makes them play…

— Michel Foucault

“There comes a stage, whether in meditation or in the ordinary daily experience of life, at which he has to cross over from doing,…

— Paul Brunton

“This is what he was good at, he realized. This is what he did. He placed himself in the world, and the world drew…

— Bruce Brooks

“Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has…

— Dante Alighieri

“To know a man’s secrets is to discover his weakness, and thus control his will”

— Jeremy Aldana

He must be able to hear them [the counter arguments] from persons who actually believe them; who defend them in earnest, and do their…

— John Stuart Mill

He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature

— Mencius

“When you know a man’s secrets, you have power over him. A man’s secret is his weakness.”

— Brent Weeks

“It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly learns, that, beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect, he is capable of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson