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Seven Thousand Ways To Listen: Staying Close To What Is Sacred (2012)

by Mark Nepo(Favorite Author)

4.12 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

145167466X (ISBN13: 9781451674668)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Atria Books

review 1: I LOVED this book. It took me 2 months to read it for I used it as my morning meditation guide, one lesson/reflection/inspiration at a time. It led me to soon going to a spirituality/writing workshop in Estes Park, Colorado led my Mark Nepo. I love his metaphor at the end that listening is watering the heart and the meditation he suggests to share with a friend is one I plan to share for the rest of my lifetime...and maybe even in the next too :).
review 2: I've known that listening takes much more effort than speaking. It requires more discipline and a higher level of selflessness. Those of us who talk alot rarely realize that between the speaker and the listener, power resides in the listener. Otherwise the speaker has no audience. In 7000 Ways to Listen M... moreark Nepo eloquently walks us through a journey of deeply engaging our life experience through listening... deep listening. This is an uphill endeavor especially in our anxious and speedy lives. Nepo concludes that authentic listening is what can slow down our hurried lives. It is an act of love... love toward ourselves which can accomplish this. He helps the reader position him/herself as better listeners, not just to words, but to life in its various expressions, to nature, that which we do not understand, to that which we fear, so that we could be transformed in the process. For we are changed by what we hear. Even prayer he articulates is listening. Wow, how much and for how long have I prayed mostly by speaking?I recommend this book not to those who want it, but to those like myself who need it. less

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