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• Laying on the floor and listening to music might be all the therapy that you need.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Needs, Might, Therapy

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• The many ways to listen have been reaching into me for years. To enter deep listening, I've had to learn how to keep emptying and opening, how to keep beginning. I've had to lean into all I don't understand, accepting that I am changed by what I hear.

  Mark Nepo

  Years, Way, Accepting

  Mark Nepo (2013). “Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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

  Rob Brezsny

  Curiosity, Needs, Thanks

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.3, Frog Books

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• I also combined the R&B feel with the pop music of Taiwan... I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to.

  Coco Lee

  Sound, Taiwan, Flavor

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• Meditation is listening to the song of the inner Soul, seeing the beauty of the inner Self, smelling the fragrance of the inner Spirit, experiencing the touch of the inner energies and tasting the intense sweetness of the inner God.

  Amit Ray

  Song, Self, Meditation

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• A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Women, Sore Throat, Good Listener

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• Several Southeastern tribes have long said that their ancestors received immigrants from Mesoamerica and that these immigrants introduced many cultural changes. Far too few anthropologists were listening.

  Richard Thornton

  Long, Tribes, Said

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• Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that.

  John Guare

  Ballet, Body, Spirit

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• People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Wall, Hate, Mean

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• Listening is an act of love. When you listen to people, you are communicating non-verbally that they are important to you.

  Jim George

  People, Important, Acts Of Love

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• I was driving home the other night, listening to the radio, and the guy filling in for Art Bell on Coast to Coast AM was talking to some other guy about Nazis, UFOs, the Kennedy Assassination, time travel, and George Bush, and how it all relates to OneWorldGovernment. This, of course, made me think about barbell training.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Art, Home, Thinking

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• I once said to a boy, ‘You’re a really good kisser,’ and he said, ‘You’re only as good as the person you’re kissing.' I think it’s the same with the music. If someone [says], ‘Your music is really provocative,’ I’m only as provocative as the person that’s listening to it.

  FKA twigs

  Kissing, Boys, Thinking

  "FKA Twigs Is a Woman of Mystery -- And She Likes It That Way" by Devon Maloney, www.billboard.com. August 18, 2014.

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• I would give anything for a female's hand on me tonight. they soften a man and then leave him listening to the rain.

  Charles Bukowski

  Rain, Men, Hands

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.301, Canongate Books

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• When I was 12, I began listening to John Coltrane and I developed a love for jazz, which I still have more and more each year.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Years, Jazz, Coltrane

  Scholastic Interview, www.scholastic.com. February 2002.

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• Our children are trying to tell us something. And we are not listening.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Trying, Our Children

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. March 12, 2009.

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• We all compromise ourselves, from time to time, because maybe it will lead to more opportunity...A ll of that’s cool, but we forget and we get caught up. If you want that nurturing, caring, empathetic, compassionate heart to keep on ticking and be around, and you want it to be strong, then don’t neglect #1. One way to feed it is just being truthful and listening to your heart.

  Paul Walker

  Strong, Heart, Caring

  FaceBook post by Paul Walker from Dec 13, 2013

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• You want to make a difference in your world? Live a holy life: Be faithful to your spouse. Be the one at the office who refuses to cheat. Be the neighbor who acts neighbors. Be the employee who does the work and doesn't complain. Pay your bills. Do your part and enjoy life. Don't speak one message and live another. People are watching the way we act more than they are listening to what we say.

  Max Lucado

  Differences, Office, People

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• We must not pull away from our children. We must keep trying, keep reaching, keep praying, keep listening. We must keep them within the clasp of our arms.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Children, Trying, Arms

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• 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

  Space, Mad, Silence

  Steven Millhauser (2011). “Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954 by Jeffrey Cartwright”, p.28, Vintage

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• There are six stages to knowledge: Firstly: Asking questions in a good manner. Secondly: Remaining quiet and listening attentively. Thirdly: Understanding well. Fourthly: Memorising. Fifthly: Teaching. Sixthly- and it is its fruit: Acting upon the knowledge and keeping to its limits.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Teaching, Asking Questions, Understanding

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• Your heart is alive. Keep listening to what it has to say

  Paulo Coelho

  Heart, Alive

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk.

  Serj Tankian

  Soul, Bees, Revolutionary

  "Serj Tankian: Alternative Rock’s Political Poet". Interview with Gary Moskowitz, www.motherjones.com. November 9, 2007.

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• Listening to Eric Taylor is better than reading a Larry McMurtry novel and easier on the eyes.

  Ralston Bowles

  Reading, Eye, Eric

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• Heaven is totally overrated. It seems boring. Clouds, listening to people play the harp. It should be somewhere you can't wait to go, like a luxury hotel. Maybe blue skies and soft music were enough to keep people in line in the 17th century, but heaven has to step it up a bit. They're basically getting by because they only have to be better than hell.

  Joel Stein

  Clouds, Luxury Hotels, Blue

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• Listening is a discipline. It's all about being present at that moment in time.

  Chris Murray

  Discipline, Moments, That Moment

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