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Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

Nhat Hanh
People, Listening, Suffering

The most important thing is that we need to be understood. We need someone to be able to listen to us and to understand us. Then we will suffer less.

Nhat Hanh
Empathy, Listening, Suffering

To reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides. If we take sides, it is impossible to do the work of reconciliation. And humans want to take sides. That is why the situation gets worse and worse. Are there people who are still available to both sides? They need not do much. They need do only one thing: Go to one side and tell all about the suffering endured by the other side, and go to the other side and tell all about the suffering endured by this side. This is our chance for peace. But how many of us are able to do that?

Nhat Hanh
Party, People, Listening

By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person.

Nhat Hanh
Leadership, Understanding, Listening
Thich Nhat Hanh, Sherab Chodzin Kohn (2011). “True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart”, p.37, Shambhala Publications

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

Nhat Hanh
Understanding, Listening, Suffering

Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart.

Nhat Hanh
Heart, Empathy, Listening
Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March, 2010.

I am determined to practice deep listening. I am determined to practice loving speech.

Nhat Hanh
Practice, Listening, Speech
Thich Nhat Hanh, Sherab Chodzin Kohn (2011). “True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart”, p.88, Shambhala Publications

You who are journalists, writers, citizens, you have the right and duty to say to those you have elected that they must practice mindfulness, calm and deep listening, and loving speech. This is universal thing, taught by all religions.

Nhat Hanh
Practice, Meditation, Listening
Thich Nhat Hanh, Sherab Chodzin Kohn (2006). “True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart”, p.92, Shambhala Publications

Deep listening helps us to recognize the existence of wrong perceptions in the other person and wrong perceptions in us.

Nhat Hanh
Perception, Listening, Helping

One hour of compassionate deep listening can bring about transformation and healing.

Nhat Hanh
Healing, Coaching, Listening

We have to have loving speech. And if we are honest, if we are true, terrorists will open their hearts. Then we practice compassionate listening, and we can learn so much about our own perception and their perception. Only after that can we help remove wrong perception. That is the best way, the only way, to remove terrorism.

Nhat Hanh
Heart, Practice, Listening

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