Exercise 4: Listening Positions Play with my listening positions, get conscious about them and move my listening position to different places, whatever is appropriate to listen to.

Differencing: We listen to differences; we discount sounds that remains the same. To make it easy for your conversation partners train to variate your voice.

Filters like, culture, language, values, beliefs, attitudes, expectations, intentions etc. take us down to what we pay attention to.

Exercise 1: Silence Just three minutes a day of silence is a wonderful exercise to reset your ears and to recalibrate, so that you can hear the quite again.

Exercise 2: The Mixer If I am in a noisy place like a coffee bar or in nature at a lake try to identify the different noises. How many individual channels of sound can I hear? Where are they? It improves the quality of my listening.

Exercise 3: Savoring Learn to enjoy mundane sounds. It could be a tumble dryer or a coffee grinder. Try to identify repeating sound patterns or to find similar sounds.

Exercise 5: Recieve · Pay attention to the person Appreciate · Little verbal/noise feedback Summarise · very important Ask · questions afterwards

Our embedded reporters during the war agreed to guidelines established by the military.

Angels are intelligent reflections of light, that original light which has no beginning. They can illuminate. They do not need tongues or ears, for they can communicate without speech, in thought.

You cannot make horses 'safe.'

Tears are Nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed with them.

Mixed messages are just part and parcel of the romantic terrain, and rather than berate yourself for any crossed wires, you'd do better to work on your future resilience.

A girl is not a predictable book but is a closed diary

No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a 'mortal sin' subject to damnation.

How many times have your parents told you not to do things, and the next thing you know, you go do it? And you realized you shouldn't have done it.

The nature of any human being certainly anyone on Wall Street is the better deal you give the customer the worse deal it is for you.

Advice after mischief is like medicine after death.

Sometimes I think we're exposed to things we shouldn't be exposed to too early. I think that sets the tone to a person's whole life. Trauma.

Wearing a bold print gets harder as you get older. It's safer to stick to subtle prints or block colours. I have always found prints quite tricky. My daughter Carly, who is on the design team at Stella McCartney, is obsessed with them.

Our recent 5-year labour agreements, in Canada as well as the United States, are based upon experience, logic and principle rather than on pressure, propaganda and force.

Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.

Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America.

You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing.

One way of celebrating the Solstice is to consider it a sacred time of reflection, release, restoration, and renewal.

Faith is not belief without proof but trust without reservation.

Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.

When I was growing up, the blues did seem too simple to me. I was just a muso.

Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil War before.

We are partners by fate. We become friends by choice.

Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt. Prayer makes it weaker.

Some of us seem so anxious about avoiding hell that we forget to celebrate our journey toward heaven.