Quotes About Listening

Meditation is listening to the divine within

I have learned that much of my spiritual progress does not come directly from God, but through my ability to humble myself and hear Him speak through imperfect people.

To meditate is to listen with a receptive heart.

For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience.

Without solitude it is virtually impossible to live a spiritual life. ...We do not take the spiritual life seriously if we do not set aside some time to be with God and listen to him.

Listen to your life. All moments are key moments.

The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.

If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent.

No longer a stranger, you listen all day to these crazy love-words. Like a bee you fill hundreds of homes with honey, though yours is a long flight from here.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.

Pray to God one minute, listen to Him for one hour.

The ear never forgets what the soul says.

we are too busy listening to our thoughts that we don't hear the wonderful sounds surrounding us...

I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

You can only succeed when people are communicating, not just from the top down, but in complete interchange. Communication comes from fighting off my ego and listening.

We must be silent before we can listen. We must listen before we can learn. We must learn before we can prepare. We must prepare before we can serve. We must serve before we can lead.

Decisions are more apt to be accepted when you've listened to suggestions first. I wanted them to see the reason behind what I asked of them, not to do things just because I said so.

If people only talked about what they understood, Earth would be a very quiet place.

This is what I have to say about Bach's life's work: listen, play, love, revere – and keep your trap shut.

Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him?

Just imagine," he went on, "preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him?

Abban volt bölcs, hogy tudott hallgatni. A hallgatás úgy zárja magába a bölcsesség és szellemesség ígéretét, mint márványtömb a remekbe faragott szobrot. Aki hallgat, nem tanúskodik önmaga ellen.

Sapeva ascoltare. E sapeva leggere. Non i libri, quelli son buoni tutti, sapeva leggere la gente. I segni che la gente si porta addosso: posti, rumori, odori, la loro terra, la loro storia... Tutta scritta, addosso.