“I suspect that the most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention And especially if it's given from the heart. When people are talking, there's no need to do anything but receive them. Just take them in. Listen to what they're saying. Care about it. Most times caring about it is even more important than understanding it. Most of us don't value ourselves or our love enough to know this.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayNeedsGivingHeartPersonsImportantEnoughCareValuesGivenUnderstandingPowerfulAttentionTalkingCommunicationImportant ThingsCaringSuspectsOur LoveJust Listen Book:Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition Source: Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition
“Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.” PersonsHumorValuesAttentionEconomyPersuasive Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“Values create dimension, but color usually receives all of the attention. When painting with oils, placing dark and light pigments next to each other can be an accident waiting to happen.” LightHappensValuesNextWaitingDarkAttentionColorPaintingOilAccidentsDimensionsPigment Author:Robert Warren
“The proper role of humanists is not to bring 'human values' to the attention of technicians otherwise engaged in a purely instrumental approach to their calling, but to demand the restoration of the practical or moral element in callings that have degenerated into techniques.” InspirationalHumansValuesAttentionMoralRolesCallingDemandElementsApproachTechniquePracticalsEngagedRestorationHuman ValuesTechnicians Author:Christopher Lasch
“Punishment damages goodwill and self-esteem, and shifts our attention from the intrinsic value of an action to external consequences.” SelfActionValuesAttentionSelf EsteemConsequencePunishmentEsteemDamageGoodwillNonviolent CommunicationIntrinsic Value Author:Marshall Rose
“The authentic and pure values, truth, beauty, and goodness, in the activity of a human being are the result of one and the same act, a certain application of the full attention to the object. Teaching should have no aim but to prepare, by training the attention, for the possibility of such an act. All the other advantages of instruction are without interest.” ShouldHumansCertainValuesInterestHuman BeingsResultsAttentionTeachingPossibilityObjectsTruth IsPureActivityGoodnessTrainingAdvantageShould HaveAimApplicationInstruction Book:Gravity and Grace Source: Gravity and Grace
“Malcolm Fraser, in the marrow of his bones, despised racism. He despised people who discriminated against other people because they were different and in particular because of the colour of their skin, and I don't think there has been a time in Australian politics where there has been more attention to the importance of that value.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensDifferentValuesAttentionParticularRacismSkinsImportanceBonesColourAustralianDespisedMarrow Author:George Brandis
“Another simple and powerful way to dissolve problems is not to dwell upon the outcome of your actions. Instead, learn to value each action (no matter how small or large), to do it with complete attention. Your joy and satisfaction comes from doing each action with a whole heart and mind. Results and consequences then take care of themselves. When you are not absorbed by concern for outcomes, how much anxiety can you ever have?” WayMindHeartMatterWholeProblemCareActionJoyValuesSimpleResultsPowerfulAttentionLearningAnxietyConsequenceConcernSatisfactionTake CareOutcomesHeart And MindPower Of The Mind Author:Brenda Shoshanna
“We need to find secular ways to cultivate warm-heartedness. We need secular ways to educate ourselves about inner values. The source of a happy life is within us. Trouble makers in many parts of the world are often quite well educated, so it is not just education that we need. We need to pay attention to inner values.” WorldWayNeedsWellsLife IsValuesPayAttentionTroubleSourceWarmEducatedPay AttentionMakersEducateHappy LifeSecularWell EducatedTrouble Maker Author:Dalai Lama
“Allow me to draw your attention to the value and beauty of marriage. The complementarity of man and woman, the vertex of the divine creation, is being questioned by gender ideology, in the name of a freer and more just society. The difference between man and woman is not meant to stand in opposition, or to subordinate, but is for the sake of communion and generation, always 'in the image and likeness of God.'” MenValuesNamesDifferencesAttentionGenerationsCreationDivineDrawsMen And WomenSakeGenderIdeologyOppositionCommunionSubordinatesDifferences Between Man And Woman Author:Pope Francis