Whether you find it through mediation or sighing over tea or just turning all your devices off for five minutes, listening is an ancient lifeline by which we are awakened time and again. Once reawakened, we more easily find our way to each other, and so help each other live.

Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred (ed. Simon and Schuster, 2012) - ISBN: 9781451674699