Action Quote by Terry Tempest Williams

Deep listening helps us to recognize the existence of wrong perceptions in the other person and wrong perceptions in us.

— Nhat Hanh

Deep listening is experiencing heightened awareness or expanded awareness of sound and of silence, of quiet, and of sounding - making sounds.

— Pauline Oliveros

The way the mind decodes music is an individual mystery. But the physical circumstances can change the way you listen.

— Simon McBurney

“When I have been listened to and when I have been heard, I am able to re-perceive my world in a new way and…

— Carl R. Rogers

When you’re sad you need to hear your sorrow structured into sound.

— Susanna Kaysen

Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

— William Wordsworth

Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open- hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our spirits expand.

— Anonymous

Perhaps sound is only an insanity of silence, a mad gibber of empty space grown fearful of listening to itself and hearing nothing.

— Steven Millhauser

To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound.

— Sophocles

When someone really hears you without passing judgment on you, without trying to take responsibility for you, without trying to mold you, it feels…

— Carl Rogers

A voice can also repel, infuriate or actually make a listener ill.

— Johnny Olson

Often, particularly with voices, you're hearing horrible things, demon voices, and voices telling them that they're not worth it or that they're going to…

— Eric McCormack