Quotes about Communication

Just as words lose their power when they are not born out of silence, so openness loses its meaning when there is no ability to be closed.

A good host is the one who believes that his guest is carrying a promise he wants to reveal to anyone who shows genuine interest.

We will never believe that we have anything to give unless there is someone who is able to receive.

we are usually surrounded by so much inner and outer noise that it is hard to truly hear our God when he is speaking to us.

A complainer is hard to live with, and very few people know how to respond to the complaints made by a self-rejecting person. The tragedy is that, often, the complaint, once expressed, leads to that which is most feared: further rejection.

what is most personal and unique in each one of us is probably the very element which would, if it were shared or expressed, speak most deeply to others.

When you let your wounded self express itself in the form of apologies, arguments, or complaints—through which it cannot be truly heard—you will only grow frustrated and increasingly feel rejected.

Truth does not mean an idea, concept, or doctrine, but the true relationship.

If you see in me more than my function or job, then I can slowly communicate to you on a deeper level. I can become a person to you.

Teaching, therefore, asks first of all the creation of a space where students and teachers can enter into a fearless communication with each other and allow their respective life experiences to be their primary and most valuable source of growth and maturation. It asks for a mutual trust in which those who teach and those who want to learn can become present to each other, not as opponents, but as those who share in the same struggle and search for the same truth.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.