When you and the truth speak to me, I do not listen to the truth. I listen to you.
Antonio Porchia
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The occasional trip into realms labeled madness — can mean, especially if you are a writer, that you are given to telling the unvarnished, brutal, searing truth, whether society likes it or not. And not the Sylvia Plath look-at-me kinds of truth, but the spiritual-seer and mad-shaman types of truth, the truths that really hurt, the truths that get into society's craw and stick there, causing festering metaphysical sores indicative of social cancers or worse — but also the types of truth that speak to you deeply, authentically, radiantly, if you have the courage to listen.
Ken Wilber
Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
John Muir
When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.
Anthony de Mello
Listen to what others have to say. When you speak, you're only repeating things you already know. When you listen you learn.
Steve Maraboli
Close your eyes and listen. Listen to the silent screams of terrified mothers, the prayers of anguished old men and women. Listen to the tears of children. Jewish children, a beautiful little girl among them, with golden hair, whose vulnerable tenderness has never left me. Look and listen as they walk towards dark flames so gigantic that the planet itself seemed in danger.
Elie Wiesel
Porchia, Antonio
Porson, Richard
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