"An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart."

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Source : "The New Freedom of Forgiveness". Book by David W Augsburger, March 13, 2000.

David W Augsburger

#Communication Quotes #Heart Quotes #Ears Quotes

“We need a price on carbon that accurately reflects its real costs on our society and our wellbeing.”
“I don't think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It's just maturity. I've become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence.”
“Galway Kinnell came out with that wonderful big, breathy, hollow voice of his and read, for the first time in public, "The Bear." That poem impressed me so much that I memorized it. I used it for years when I taught in prisons. It's a powerful extended metaphor for what the writing life is really all about. It's a uniquely powerful poem about self-transformation, and that's what we're asking, really, beyond even our objection to the war. We're asking people to look at themselves and think about what might be possible with a little self-transformation.”

Source : Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.
“I thought that there were two rules in life - never count the cost, and never do anything unless you can do it wholeheartedly. Now is the time to live.”
“It does sound like a science fiction story and I may sound like one of these guys who walks up and down with a sandwich board saying the end of the world is nigh, but the end is nigh....”

Source : "Nasa dismisses asteroid collision claim" by Simon Jeffery, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2002.
“Some of the best cooks that I've cooked with, whether it's in New York or Chicago or even here in Philadelphia, are actually Ecuadorians. And there's something about their palates that really just inspires me, and has a really deep sense of flavor.”

Source : "Chef Jose Garces Follows His 'Latin Road Home'". "Talk of the Nation" with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. October 4, 2012.
“All of our technology is completely unnecessary to a happy life.”

Source : "Shakespeare had no BlackBerry and Aristotle mananged without an iPhone" by writes Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2009.
“The tides are in our veins.”

Source : Robinson Jeffers, Morley Baer, James Karman (2001). “Stones of the Sur”, p.39, Stanford University Press

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