Listening

"There is a way of relating to others such that one deliberately listens for the hidden beauty in them.   The place of their beauty is often the place of their greatest integrity.  When you listen, the integrity and wholeness in others moves closer.  Your attention strengthens it and makes it easier for them to hear it for themselves.  In your presence, they can more easily inhabit that in them which is beyond their limitations, a place of greater freedom and sanctuary.  Eventually they may be able to live there."  Rachel Naomi Remen