Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When people really listen to each other in a quiet, fascinated attention, the creative fountain inside each of us begins to spring and cast up new thoughts and unexpected wisdom.

Brenda Ueland in What You Didn't Lose by John Fox

 

To Practice This Thought:
Find a creative way -- writing, painting, singing -- to express something you have heard.

 

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