“Listening is difficult. Perhaps that’s why most of us continually seek to label, predict, and control our relationships; because once a relationship becomes predictable, you no longer have to listen. When you no longer listen you can sit back, shut down, and shift into automatic pilot. But when we stop listening, … the relationship diminishes – until it becomes a chore we attend to rather than a person we are connected to.”
-Mark Yaconelli in “Growing Souls: Experiments in Contemplative Youth Ministry”
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