Listening

[tjohnson]

Just read a quote in Reader's Digest that was very good:

"Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you."
-Alan Alda

[free thinker]

Thanks T.


I will keep that in memory.


ft

[peter_mary]

What a difference it would have made if the Church, and its adherants, would have been willing to listen.

We listened to them...were even changed by what we heard. But there is an utter indifference to the feelings we felt as we struggled with the Church. There was no listening. Maybe the occassional unusual Bishop, but for most of us, there was simply the pretending to listen so they could figure out how best to correct us. There is no willingness to be changed.

And imagine what could be accomplished if there was...