The Unclad Soul

"To be able to listen--really, wholly passively, self-effacingly listen--without presupposing, classifying, improving, controverting, evaluating, approving or disapproving, without dueling with what is being said, without rehearsing the rebuttal in advance, without free-associating to portions of what is being said so that succeeding portions are not heard at all--such listening is rare."  ~ Abraham Maslow, Psychologist/Author

“If you have twelve crayons in your box, use your creativity and resourcefulness to make the best picture you can with these. Don’t spend your time worrying that someone else has forty-eight or sixty-four crayons. As you are, you are basically adequate to life.” ~ Laurence G. Boldt, ZEN and the Art of Making a Life

“Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.”   ~ Richard Ford, Novelist