“Or, as the writer Anaïs Nin put it, “We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are.”
― How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
― How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
“We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are.”
― How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
― How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
“As Father Guy, one of the first monks I met, put it, "Samuel said, "Speak, Lord, for thy servant is listening'; we more often say, 'Listen, Lord, for thy servant is speaking.”
― Monk Habits for Everyday People: Benedictine Spirituality for Protestants
― Monk Habits for Everyday People: Benedictine Spirituality for Protestants
“Listening. It's not something for which Protestants are usually well known. In our activist piety we have tended toward prophetic pronouncements rather than quiet listening. As Father Guy, one of the first monks I met, put it, "Samuel said, "Speak, Lord, for thy servant is listening'; we more often say, 'Listen, Lord, for thy servant is speaking.”
― Monk Habits for Everyday People: Benedictine Spirituality for Protestants
― Monk Habits for Everyday People: Benedictine Spirituality for Protestants
“This is what fools people,” the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre once observed. “A man is always a teller of stories. He lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and tries to live his life as if he were recounting them.”
― How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
― How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
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