I Am Listening Quotes

In listening and stillness there is nobody who is still, and this stillness doesn't refer to any object; it is absolutely objectless; it is our real nature.

If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room.

Truth comes when your mind and heart are purged of all sense of striving and you are no longer trying to become somebody; it is there when the mind is very quiet, listening timelessly to everything.

Whole-hearted listening is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to the other person.

All of us need better skills in listening, conversing, respecting one another's uniqueness, because these are essential for strong relationships.

Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.

I always consider myself lucky that I can actually cry listening to some music.

My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.

We need radical curiosity and reverent pranks, voracious listening and ferocious thanks.

If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you are listening to a dialogue of two fools in a comedy.

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.

We do not grow by knowing all of the answers, but rather by living with the questions.

How Do I Listen to others? As if everyone were my Master Speaking to me His Cherished Last Words.

So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.

God never ceases to speak to us, but the noise of the world without and the tumult of our passions within bewilder us and prevent us from listening to him

You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.

The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.

If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.

If you have something critical to sat to a player, preface it by saying something positive. That way when you get to the criticism, at least you know he'll be listening.

Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows.

Moment after moment, completely devote yourself to listening to your inner voice.

Listening to other people's needs is listening to God. Noticing simple, natural beauty, hearing music, even confronting the challenge of pain and problems - that can all be listening to God too.

You don't need any brains to listen to music.

If we look at the world around us, we see that we are conditioned to not listen deeply. Because isn't that what silence is? It's a listening, a deep wordless listening.

There is no bad day that can’t be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple.

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.

Stop listening to people telling us we need to hate each other

Meditation is listening to the divine within

With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.

Keep on listening & tapping your feet.

If you say something and back it up with your actions, you will provide the 'proof' for people who are listening to you, and they will much more willingly follow your lead.

If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly.

Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty.

I learn everything I play by listening to somebody else.

God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.

I don't care what anybody says about Ringo. I cut my rock-n-roll teeth listening to him.

Love is being honest with yourself at all times being honest with the other person at all times telling, listening, respecting the truth and never pretending Love is the source of reality

The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius.

Many people learn how to talk, but they don't learn how to listen. Listening to one another is an important thing in life. And music tells us how to do that.

In the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you.

Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them.

Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.

Wisdom is something that comes, little by little, through a lot of listening.

You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.

You wish to see; listen. Hearing is a step toward Vision.

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

Listening better. Caring more. Being there. Its not big changes, but the little ones in our daily lives that make all the difference. With little ways to love more, big things happen

Praying is not about asking; it's about listening... It is just opening your eyes to see what was there all along.

I don't want people to think that they can attain realization simply by listening to others or by reading books. They must practice what they read and hear.