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No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.

Listening is the essence of anything.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

However true it may be that we have estranged ourselves from Nature, it is nonetheless true that we feel we are in her and belong to her. It can be only her own working which pulsates also in us. We must find the way back to her again.

We can hear the silent voice of the spiritual universe within our own hearts.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

I think, really, that the only way a person can open their heart to someone who is so much another is really by knowing them... whether that's in a classroom, or a soccer team, or a food pantry, or any of those things. I mean, we're kind of more alike than we are different.

A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.