"Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak."  Epictetus

"Deep listening is like dying.  It's a relinquishing of control... a giving over into the art of what comes. Without such an opening, conditioning stays intact,and natural innocence disappears into an arrogance which knows it has an answer for everything."  Tom Lutes


Let me listen, give up arrogance.
Let me be more like you, listening with my whole heart.
I pray to listen to others, to myself, to the world around me.

I pray for you always and forever, loving soul that you are.


Amen.