Madeleine L'Engle Quotes About Listening
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Plato spoke of the necessity for divine madness in the poet. It is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange and dark side of the divine; it means letting go our sane self control, that control which gives us the illusion of safety. But safety is only an illusion, and letting it go is part of listening to the silence, and to the spirit.
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Because we fail to listen to each other's stories, we are becoming a fragmented human race.
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When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening.
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Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind.
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