Listening

Listening is much more than allowing another to talk while waiting for a chance to respond. Listening is paying full attention to others and welcoming them into our very beings... Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even dare to be silent with you.

True listeners no longer have an inner need to make their presence known. They are free to receive, to welcome, to accept.

Henri Nouwen

I found those quotes to be really interesting. Came across them while reading my text for my Interpersonal Communication class.

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