"People's experiences are all different, and you don't know what the person experienced. They know, but you don't, so I think it's important to listen carefully to what a person has to say. And not to force them into any direction at all but simply to model what you've experienced, model it and also be what I call a Listening Presence. If you're really listening, then some of the barriers can dissolve or change."

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Source : Source: www.artpractical.com

Pauline Oliveros

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Listening Quotes

“Discrimination is simply the act of choice. Scarcity requires us to choose; scarcity is the cause of discrimination!”
“I think the '70s are always inspiring to me. I was born then, so I have a lot of memories about how my parents were and what kinds of movies I was watching.”

Source : "Frida Giannini: A Fashionable Life". Interview with Anamaria Wilson, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 14, 2011.
“If I look at the definition of Hinduism, the Supreme Court of India has given a beautiful definition; it says that Hinduism is not a religion, it is actually a way of life.”
“I may not have proved a great explorer, but we have done the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success.”

Source : Robert Falcon Scott, Max Jones (2008). “Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition”, p.416, Oxford University Press
“Even if fathers are more benignly helpful, and even if they spend time with us teaching us what they know, rarely do they tell uswhat they feel. They stand apart emotionally: strong perhaps, maybe caring in a nonverbal, implicit way; but their internal world remains mysterious, unseen, "What are they really like?" we ask ourselves. "What do they feel about us, about the world, about themselves?”
“Fat is your friend. The brain thrives on a fat-rich, low-carbohydrate diet.”
“A disturbing possibility exists that the television experience has not merely blurred the distinctions between the real and the unreal for steady viewers, but that by doing so it has dulled their sensitivities to real events. For when the reality of a situation is diminished, people are able to react to it less emotionally, more as spectators.”

Source : Marie Winn (1978). “Plug in Drug”, Bantam Books
“There are times when I can find myself in a book, too, for two or three hours. But afterward I have such an urge to go out and reach for other people. Very often they're not around. There's also a metaphysical loneliness. We all feel it. The burden of living one's own life is experiencing sensations that no one else can share. You take a step in a house, you start moving around the house, no one else moves with you. You're walking by yourself.”

Source : David Ignatow, Ralph J. Mills (1980). “Open between us”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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