“Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open- hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our spirits expand.” SpiritSpiritualityJudgingCommunicationListeningSummerMiracleSpeakersListenersMiraculousHeartedJust ListenDeep ListeningOpen Communication Book:Heart centered marriage: fulfilling our natural desire for sacred partnership Source: Heart centered marriage: fulfilling our natural desire for sacred partnership
“You can practice deep listening in order to relieve the suffering in us, and in the other person. That kind of listening is described as compassionate listening. You listen only for the purpose of relieving suffering in the other person.” KindPersonsPurposeSufferingOrderPracticeCommunicationListeningCompassionateNonviolent CommunicationDeep Listening Author:Nhat Hanh
“Attentive listening to others is important regardless of their stations and positions. Wise people consider the deep meaning and true values of all suggestions. Learning and teaching are exchanged joyfully through deep listening and mutual appreciation.” PeopleImportantValuesWiseTeachingPositionListeningAppreciationMutualStationsSuggestionsTeaching And LearningListening To OthersWise PeopleTrue ValueDeep MeaningDeep Listening Author:Chungliang Al Huang
“I'm doing more deep listening, which is part of the role or job of the songwriter. I think with a lot of songwriting, songs sing themselves to you tonally and also lyrically. And it's not necessarily your own visual memories that are writing the song. It's like there are words that you can catch out there and you have to be able to see and hear them.” ThinkingWritingAbleJobsSongMemoriesRolesListeningVisualsSongwritingSongwritersDeep Listening Author:Mirah
“There is space for a different kind of investigative reporting that's about immersion and obsessive attention to detail and deep listening.” KindDifferentSpaceAttentionListeningDetailsDifferent KindsObsessiveImmersionAttention To DetailDeep Listening Author:Sarah Stillman
“Deep listening is experiencing heightened awareness or expanded awareness of sound and of silence, of quiet, and of sounding - making sounds.” SoundSilenceAwarenessListeningQuietDeep Listening Author:Pauline Oliveros
“Deep Listening Institute is dissolving and is now the Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). The legacy of the twenty or thirty years that we've been operating is now transferred to RPI.” YearsListeningTwentiesLegacyThirtyInstituteThirty YearsDissolvingDeep Listening Author:Pauline Oliveros
“It's going to take about a year or two for the transfer to be completed. We have a certification program so professionals can teach deep listening.” YearsTwoTeachListeningProgramTransfersDeep Listening Author:Pauline Oliveros
“In my Deep Listening class at RPI, I always do an hour of energy exercises to start with. Then we do a listening meditation after that, after the body has been loosened up and warmed up and is ready. We do the listening. After that, there's the journaling of the experience, which they do each time throughout the semester to the point that I have them write a final paper on what they've experienced.” WritingHas BeensBodyEnergyHoursClassMeditationReadyListeningExercisePaperFinalsJournalingSemesterDeep Listening Author:Pauline Oliveros
“The mission [of institution] won't change. It will continue to be what it is: to spread the practice of deep listening and introduce it to people, to do workshops and retreats and certification programs and so on.” PeoplePracticeListeningProgramInstitutionsSpreadMissionsIntroducingRetreatWorkshopsDeep Listening Author:Pauline Oliveros
“Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart. Even if he says things that are full of wrong perceptions, full of bitterness, you are still capable of continuing to listen with compassion. Because you know that listening like that, you give that person a chance to suffer less.” IfsKnowsGivingHeartKindPersonsStillsHelpingPurposeSufferingChanceCompassionListeningPerceptionCapableEmptyBitternessCompassionateContinuingDeep Listening Author:Nhat Hanh
“Deep listening helps us to recognize the existence of wrong perceptions in the other person and wrong perceptions in us.” PersonsHelpingExistenceListeningPerceptionDeep Listening Author:Nhat Hanh
“Wrong perceptions cannot be removed by guns and bombs. They should be removed by deep listening, compassionate listening, and loving space.” ShouldSpaceListeningPerceptionGunBombsCompassionateDeep Listening Author:Nhat Hanh