Empathy

When we can speak out loud, without interruption or judgement, it's like you get to hear your own heart.

I hate learning and growing. My friends and I say that life is a series of AFGOs – Another F*@#ing Growth Opportunity.

Deliberate, empathic, wonderful listening doesn't just change the person that is listened to; it changes the listener.

Listening – real, deliberate listening – is the bedrock of empathy.

Social engagement has created conditions for social estrangement.

The best listening happens when we suspend our right to be right.

The best listening – the kind that changes us and other people – happens when we suspend our beliefs about what's right so that we can actually hear the stuff that being right keeps us from hearing.

Deliberate, compassionate, empathic listening, the kind that happens when we let go of our right to be right, when we let go of our judgements - it can change the world.