“And are all profited by what they hear, or only some among them? So that it seems that there is an art of hearing as well as one of speaking.”

“People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.”

“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”

“Only those looking for profit will be eager to hear from you and leave immediately.”

“It takes two to speak the truth, — one to speak, and another to hear.”

“How do you speak that all men may hear you in their own tongues? It is an art known and practiced by teachers of old.”

“There are some stories you can't hear enough. They are the same every time you hear them. But you are not. That's one reliable way of understanding time.”

“I seem to see before me the smiling faces of thousands of children some young and fresh and some wearing the friendly marks of age. But all children at heart and not an unfriendly face among them. And while I’m trying hard to speak the right word, I seem to hear a voice lifted above the rest saying you have made some of us happy. And so I feel my heart fluttering and my lips trembling, and I have to bow silently and turn away and hurry back into the obscurity that fits me best.”

“Where religion speaks, reason has only a right to hear.”

“Right and wrong are temporal, but time is neither right nor wrong. Right and wrong are the Dharma, but the Dharma is neither right nor wrong. In the balance of the Dharma, wrong is balanced. In the balance of the Dharma, right is balanced.
And so, in learning of complete and utter Awakening, in hearing the Teachings, doing the training, and realizing the effect, this is profound, vast, and wonderful. Some hear of unsurpassed Awakening from good friends, and some hear of it from the sutras. What one hears first is, "Not doing wrong action." If one does not hear “not doing wrong action,” one is not hearing the Buddhas' true Dharma but demonic talk. Know that hearing “not doing wrong action” is hearing the Buddhas' true Dharma.”