"Perhaps the most important skill that should be taught to all persons," says Wilson Van Dusen, "is the capacity to really see, hear, and understand others. Such a skill if useful in dealing with everyone — friends, relatives, strangers." The capacity to really listen, to put aside our own concerns for the moment, to feel or imagine ourselves in the world of another person and then to communicate our empathetic understanding to that person in such a way that he or she feels heard and understood is the foundation for all genuine relationship and solidarity between human beings.
— John Neafsey, A Sacred Voice Is Calling