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“Prayer is no mere exercise of words or of the ears, it is no mere repetition of empty formula.”

Prayer Exercise Empty Ears Mere Formulas Repetition

Book:Ramanama

Source: Ramanama

“Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty and waits on all things.”

Mind Spirit Waiting Listening All Things Empty Ears Recognition

Book:The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

Source: The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

“When I was a little kid and I heard a song I liked on TV, I would jump up and run to the piano to try and figure it out by ear. When I was 10 or 11, I built myself a drum kit in the garage made out of empty laundry detergent buckets, old lawn chairs, paint cans, and old trash cans. And around that time, my parents got me my first guitar. A baby acoustic. I jumped between all of these instruments constantly to satisfy the ideas I heard in my head. At this young age, I realized that music would play a huge part in my life.”

“I always wished I could go to confession. I was so full of things I couldn't name and had an instinct to hide. I felt burdened by the loneliness of my interior life. I wanted some container that I could empty myself into, some ear that would never be shocked, even if it offered me some kind of penance.”

Ifs Kind Wanted Names Felt Loneliness Empty Ears Instinct Confession Shocked Interiors Containers Penance

Author:Melissa Febos

“Being a mother is like trying to hold a wolf by the ears,” Gram said. “If you have three or four –or more – chickabiddies, you’re dancing on a hot griddle all the time. You don’t have time to think about anything else. And if you’ve only got one or two, it’s almost harder. You have room left over – empty spaces that you think you’ve got to fill up.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Said Two Mother Three Left Space Rooms Four Empty Ears Harder Hot Dancing Being A Mother Time To Think Empty Space

Author:Sharon Creech

“It's that moon again, slung so fat and low in the tropical night, calling out across a curdled sky and into the quivering ears of that dear old voice in the shadows, the Dark Passenger, nestled snug in the backseat of the Dodge K-car of Dexter's hypothetical soul. That rascal moon, that loudmouthed leering Lucifer, calling down across the empty sky to the dark hearts of the night monsters below, calling them away to their joyful playgrounds.”

Heart Soul Night Voice Dark Sky Car Calling Moon Lows Shadow Empty Ears Dear Monsters Fats Joyful Passengers Playgrounds Lucifer Tropical Dodge Hypothetical Rascals Backseat

Book:Dearly Devoted Dexter

Source: Dearly Devoted Dexter

“I’m erased. I’m gone. I’m nothing. And then the world is free to flow into me like water into an empty bowl…. And… I see. I hear. But not with eyes and ears. I’m not outside my world anymore, and I’m not really inside it either. The thing is, there’s no difference between me and the universe. The boundary is gone. I am it and it is me. I am a stone, a cactus thorn. I am rain. I like that most of all, being rain.”

World Life Eye Universe Water Differences Gone Rain Flow Stones Empty Ears Boundaries Bowls Cactus Stargirl

Book:Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

“Don’t mourn your luck that’s failing now, work gone wrong, your plans all proving deceptive — don’t mourn them uselessly. As one long prepared, and graced with courage, say goodbye to her, the Alexandria that is leaving. Above all, don’t fool yourself, don’t say it was a dream, your ears deceived you: don’t degrade yourself with empty hopes like these.”

Long Dream Gone Plans Failing Fool Prove Empty Ears Luck Prepared Leaving Goodbye Deceived Mourn Saying Goodbye Degrade Deceptive Alexandria

Author:C.P. Cavafy

“Kindness is the visible expression of a feeling and merciful heart; it is the going forth of a tender and susceptible mind; it claims kindred with the human race; it is all ear to listen-all heart to feel-all eye to examine and to weep-all hand and foot to relieve; it invites the sufferer with kind words, and sends him not empty away.”

Source: Christian charity explained; or, The influence of religion upon temper stated; in an exposition of the thirteenth chapter of the first Epistle to the Corinthians

“Hence it demands the emptiness of all the faculties. And when the faculties are empty, then the whole being listens. There is then a direct grasp of what is right there before you that can never be heard with the ear or understood with the mind.”

Mind Whole Heard Demand Empathy Understood Direct Empty Ears Emptiness Faculty

Author:Zhuangzi

“The Chinese philosopher Chuang-Tzu stated that true empathy requires listening with the whole being: The hearing that is only in the ears is one thing. The hearing of the understanding is another. But the hearing of the spirit is not limited to any one faculty, to the ear, or to the mind. Hence it demands the emptiness of all the faculties. And when the faculties are empty, then the whole being listens. There is then a direct grasp of what is right there before you that can never be heard with the ear or understood with the mind.”

Mind Whole Spirit Understanding One Thing Heard Listening Demand Empathy Understood Direct Empty Ears Philosopher Hearing Chinese Emptiness Faculty Chinese Philosopher

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg