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Listening with Understanding and Empathy

Devoting mental energies to understanding others' thoughts and feelings. Understand others!

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa
The way of being with another person which is termed empathic…means temporarily living in their life, moving abut in it delicately without making judgments…… to be with another in this way means that for the time being you lay aside the views and values you hold for yourself in order to enter the other’s world without prejudice…a complex, demanding, strong yet subtle and gentle way of being.
Carl Rogers
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Dorothy Nevill
It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.  
If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.
Marge Piercy
He who guards his mouth keeps his life, but he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.
Proverbs 13:3
Dialogue is about people-listening to them, empathizing with them, and humbling ourselves for a moment that we might understand a different view.
Science & Spirit: Connecting Science, Religion and Life, January/February 2001 p. 7)
A unique relationship develops among team members who enter into dialogue regularly. They develop a deep trust that cannot help but carry over to discussions. They develop a richer understanding of the uniqueness of each person’s point of view.
Peter Senge
Real dialogue is where two or more people become willing to suspend their certainty in each other’s presence.
David Bohm
Think twice before you speak - and you'll find everyone talking about something else.
Francis Rodman
Try to see it my way, only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong. While you see it your way, there’s a chance that we might fall apart before too long. We can work it out. W e can work it out.
John Lennon and Paul McCartney
The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.
Keanu Reeves
Dialogue’s sole purpose is to create something that has not previously been thought by any individual prior to the dialogue. It’s purpose is not to share information but to create information...
Michael McMaster
If there is any secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from his angle as well as from your own.
Henry Ford.
Nothing increases the respect and gratitude of one man for another more than when he is heard exactly and with interest.
R. Umbach
Listening is the beginning of understanding..... Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening. Let the wise listen and add to their learning and let the discerning get guidance
Proverbs 1:5
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.
Wilson Mizner
Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right?
Wayne W. Dyer
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway
Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.
Marge Piercy
Dialogue is a space where we may see the assumptions which lay beneath the surface of our thoughts, assumptions which drive us, assumptions around which we build organizations, create economies, form nations and religions. These assumptions become habitual, mental habits that drive us, confuse us and prevent our responding intelligently to the challenges we face every day.
David Bohm
Silent and listen are spelled with the same letters!
Unknown
Criticizing others is a dangerous thing, not so much because you may make mistakes about them, but because you may be revealing the truth about yourself.
Harold Medina
Listening is as important as talking. If you’re a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist.
Jesse Ventura
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