Maxioms Pet

X
  •   20  /  33  

    An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker's world from the inside, step in inside his or her shoes. This unification of speaker and listener is actually and extension and enlargement of ourselves, and new knowledge is always gained from this. Moreover, since true listening involves bracketing, a setting aside of the self, it also temporarily involves a total acceptance of the other. Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will fell less and less vulnerable and more and more inclined to open up the inner recesses of his or her mind to the listener. As this happens, speaker and listener begin to appreciate each other more and more, and the duet dance of love is begun again. -M. Scott Peck.

Share to:

You May Also Like   /   View all maxioms

  ( comments )
  41  /  41  

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. -Dr Joyce Brothers.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. -Dr Joyce Brothers.

by Dr. Joyce Brothers Found in: Listening Quotes,
Share to:
  ( comments )
  38  /  38  

When you are arguing with a fool, make sure he isn't doing the same thing. -Unknown.

When you are arguing with a fool, make sure he isn't doing the same thing. -Unknown.

by Unknown Found in: Listening Quotes,
Share to:
  ( comments )
  17  /  24  

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. -Wilson Mizner.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. -Wilson Mizner.

by Wilson Mizner Found in: Listening Quotes,
Share to:
  ( comments )
  11  /  25  

He holds him with his glittering eye--
. . . .
And listens like a three years' read more

He holds him with his glittering eye--
. . . .
And listens like a three years' child.

  ( comments )
  17  /  26  

It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the read more

It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become oblivious of their utterances.

by Alexander Crummell Found in: Listening Quotes,
Share to:
  ( comments )
  22  /  34  

Take care what you say before a wall, as you cannot tell who may be behind it.

Take care what you say before a wall, as you cannot tell who may be behind it.

by Sa'di Found in: Listening Quotes,
Share to:
  ( comments )
  21  /  28  

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold read more

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life...When we listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other...and it is this little creative fountain inside us that begins to spring and cast up new thoughts and unexpected laughter and wisdom. ...Well, it is when people really listen to us, with quiet facinated attention, that the little fountain begins to work again, to accelerate in the most surprising way. -Brenda Ueland.

by Brenda Ueland Found in: Listening Quotes,
Share to:
  ( comments )
  29  /  40  

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Listening Quotes,
Share to:
  ( comments )
  13  /  26  

Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals. -J. read more

Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals. -J. Isham.

by J. Isham Found in: Listening Quotes,
Share to:
Maxioms Web Pet