Without observation, constant, deep, waiting, anticipating, quite and
silent, a giving of the self, we do not learn nor are we able to hear those who
need their story listened to and told. But it is much more than that.
There is a listening we can do in our private time to the
quite, still voice, of knowledge and lack of deceit. Quite the world,
the huckster, the sham artist, the lout, the emotionally lame. Listen
to the pure, the untainted, the soft, the underbelly of pain. It is
here where you will find truth, truth not of the world, truth that
lasts for more than a day. Truth that heals, calms, sooths, betters,
and speaks of that which has always been and is always to come, but be warned, for
that of importance to all is found now and always at the foundation of
man. Yet it is the disrupting of that foundation, being able to make it
shimmy and shake, within that quake that you will uncover truths
obscured by man's conventional lies.
Listen to your internal guide, the intuitive, the
subconscious, move along the path of righteousness, the God without
seeking the atman within. It is here, big spirit speaking to small,
where the truth, truths private and public, yours, and truths for all,
can succor and encourage with rhapsody of promise and hope to come.
Hope that lasts longer than an election. Hope that has always been but
only through quite listening can be revealed by the undoing of lies the
world has done.
Listen, for you are starving for this knowledge my friend.
Knowledge that goes deeper than science, history, or math. Knowledge
that beats to the drum of the soul and finds all waiting, wanting with
bated breath, a rhythm to have and behold, a song unsung, a story all
to often left untold. A timeless hoping for all creatures that must
deal with the bolted doorway of death.
Here, in this truth, you will find your kingdom to come,
regardless of race, color, religion, social, political, or monetary,
class. It is here where we as children, brothers and sisters, nurture
our souls, heal the old in all of us, the ancient, eternal need. It is
here where we all come to bleed, and upon the letting, reach out to
others who have not shared in the bathing, the drenching, the
relentless, relenting of compassion and breathing breathlessly to have
and to hold, compassion, compassion, old compassion for all our old
souls.
Observation:
"Has anyone ever said, 'It is important to spend less time on
how we look and more time on how we see'? If not, someone should."--
Carmen Richardson Rutlen
"To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe."--
Marilyn vos Savant
"Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness."--
James Thurber
"Sometimes you earn more by doing jobs that pay nothing."--
Todd Ruthman
"If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation."--
Napoleon Hill
"In youth we learn; in age we understand."--
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
"Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack."--
Harry Emerson Fosdick
"Silence is the virtue of fools."--
Francis Bacon
"Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it."--
Mark Twain
"Whatever you believe with emotion becomes your reality. You always act
in a manner consistent with your innermost beliefs and convictions."--
Brian Tracey
"It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all of the answers."--
James Thurber
"Questions are the creative acts of intelligence."--
Frank Kingdon
"To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains."--
Mary Pettibone Poole
"The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions."--
Antony Jay
"Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers."--
Voltaire
"You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is
a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a
matter of paying attention to this miracle."--
Paulo Coelho
"The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way."--
Keanu Reeves
"I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility."--
Nikki Giovanni
"I no longer worry about being a brilliant conversationalist. I simply
try to be a good listener. I notice that people who do that are usually
welcome wherever they go."--
Frank Bettger
"Remember: when you talk you only repeat what you already know, but if you listen you may learn something."--
Amish School Saying
"It's a mistake to think we listen only with our ears. It's much more
important to listen with the mind, the eyes, the body, and the heart.
Unless you truly want to understand the other person, you'll never be
able to listen."--
Mark Herndon
"A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without
any preconceived idea; most people, after they are about eleven or
twelve, quite lose this power, they see everything through a few
preconceived ideas which hang like a veil between them and the outer
world."--
Olive Schreiner
"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."--
Robert Frost
"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf."--
Walter Lippmann
"Vocabulary enables us to interpret and to express. If you have a
limited vocabulary, you will also have a limited vision and a limited
future."--
Jim Rohn
