Arms Quote by Nancy Mairs

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.

— Gaston Bachelard

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

— Gaston Bachelard

It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his own miseries…

— Samuel Johnson

True listening is never self-effacement. We bring the whole self to the process, rather than denying self. When we truly listen, we aren't just…

— T. Thorn Coyle

All Too Often You Speak Simply To Fill The Space With Sound, Because You Feel Too Uncomfortable With Silence. But This Silence Is Golden.…

— Pacifiersucker

In daily terms, the work of listening is to be constantly worn free of our preconceptions and preferences so that nothing stands in the…

— Mark Nepo

To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is small wonder that people…

— Robert C. Murphy

One hears but one does not seek; one takes -- one does not ask who gives; a thought flashes up like lightning, it comes…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In this culture the soul and the heart too often go homeless. Listening creates a holy silence. When you listen generously to people, they…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

To listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.

— Mark Nepo

“Marie-Louise Mallet emphasizes the decreased control over the experience of listening as opposed to looking: To look is to choose one’s point of view.…

— Marie-Louise Mallet

“For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disseverment,…

— Virginia Woolf