
“I am determined to practice deep listening. I am determined to practice loving speech.”
Source: True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart
Blessings (1998)
Context: When I listen to love, I am listening to my true nature. When I express love, I am expressing my true nature. All of us love. All of us do it more and more perfectly. The past has brought us both ashes and diamonds. In the present we find the flowers of what we've planted and the seeds of what we are becoming. I plant the seeds of love in my heart. I plant the seeds of love in the hearts of others.
“I am determined to practice deep listening. I am determined to practice loving speech.”
Source: True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart
“When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.”
Comprehension
One Minute Wisdom (1989)
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.”
Variant: I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.
Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 20
“Why does my Muse only speak when she is unhappy?
She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy.”
"My Muse"
Selected Poems (1962)
Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
“I do not care to listen; obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am skeptical of praise.”
Source: Dying Earth (1950-1984), The Eyes of the Overworld (1966), Chapter 1, "The Overworld"
“When you and the truth speak to me, I do not listen to the truth. I listen to you.”
Cuando tú y la verdad me hablan, no escucho a la verdad. Te escucho a ti.
Voces (1943)
“When you seem to be listening to my words, they are your words, with me listening.”
Cuando me parece que escuchas mis palabras, me parecen tuyas mis palabres y escucho mis palabras.
Voces (1943)
“I am listening for the voices
Which I heard in days of old.”
The lonely Harp.