balancing

Balancing between

The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen.

Just listen.

Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…

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and

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Perhaps the most important thing we can bring to another person is the silence in us.

The sort of silence that is a place of refuge and of rest.

We are all hungry for this kind of silence. It is hard to find.

In its presence we can remember something beyond the moment,

a strength on which to build a life.“ *

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may mean

Listen to the silence…

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*(both fragments from  R.N. Remen)

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