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“Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music.”

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Author:Jerry Reed

“The fact that we have not yet found the slightest evidence for life - much less intelligence - beyond this Earth does not surprise or disappoint me in the least. Our technology must still be laughably primitive, we may be like jungle savages listening for the throbbing of tom-toms while the ether around them carries more words per second than they could utter in a lifetime.”

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Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“No command of art, No toil, can help you hear; Earth's minstrelsy falls clear But on the listening heart.”

Heart Art Helping Earth Fall Clear Listening Command Toil

Author:John Vance Cheney

“Women tell time by the body. They are like clocks. They are always fastened to the earth, listening for its small animal noises.”

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Author:Anne Sexton

“In truth we are not separate from each other or from the world, from the whole earth, the sun or moon or billions of stars, not separate from the entire universe. Listening silently in quiet wonderment, without knowing anything, there is just one mysteriously palpitating aliveness.”

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Book:The Light of Discovery

Source: The Light of Discovery

“The practice of listening is one of the most mysterious, luminous, and challenging art forms on Earth.”

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Book:Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred

Source: Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred

“My dream as a child was to play with a bass player like Ray Brown, who played with the Oscar Peterson Trio. The feeling I had listening to his work was almost carnal, so to actually play for him was earth-shattering for me.”

Children Play Feelings Dream Earth Player Listening Brown Rays Oscars Bass Shattering Bass Players Trios

Author:Diana Krall

“I stick to playing Brahms, but I love listening to Led Zeppelin, and I've also been a big fan of Earth Wind and Fire since the Seventies and of The Gap Band since the Eighties.”

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Author:Condoleezza Rice

“I feel most spiritual when I am listening to a soprano voice soaring to the top of its range at the most dramatic point of an aria. It feels like a geyser shooting up from the center of the earth and reaching for the stars.”

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Author:China Forbes

“You have to explain to little children 'why' and you also have to listen to them and believe me, they will reason with you, they're unbelievable! So you can learn from everyone at any age. Life is about listening, leaning and never giving up. As long as you're here on earth, you're here for a purpose and it's not about you it's about what you can do to better the world you live in. And that's why I'm here, to help someone else up.”

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Author:Leah Chase

“I'm in love with Earth. I truly am. And so listening is not work, to work toward a better future. It's joy. To not be able to work toward a better future would be work. That would be tough.”

Earth Joy Listening Tough

Author:Gordon Hempton

“Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”

Source: Poems

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.”