A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
听
Listening
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.Most people do not listen with the intent to understand: they listen with the intent to reply. They’re filtering everything through their own paradigms, reading their autobiography into other people’s lives.
先寻求理解，再寻求被理解。大多数人倾听的目的不是为了理解，而是为了回应。他们通过自己的范例来过滤一切，把自己的自传读给别人听。
The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention.... A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.
与他人沟通最基本、最有力的方式就是倾听。只是听。也许我们给予彼此的最重要的东西就是我们的关注…爱的沉默往往比最善意的话语更能治愈伤痛，更能沟通。
Listening to what people were saying wasn't even important. But it was important to look as if you were listening to what people were saying. Actually, listening to what people are saying, to me, interferes with looking as if you were listening to what people are saying.
听别人说什么甚至不重要。但重要的是要让自己看起来像是在听别人说话。实际上，在我看来，听别人说话会妨碍你看起来像在听别人说话一样。
To listen is to continually give up all expectation and to give our attention, completely and freshly, to what is before us, not really knowing what we will hear or what that will mean. In the practice of our days, to listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.
倾听就是不断地放弃所有的期待，把我们的注意力完全地、新鲜地放在我们面前的事物上，而不是真正地知道我们将听到什么或那将意味着什么。在我们的日常生活中，倾听就是轻轻地向前倾，愿意被我们所听到的改变。
People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.
人们喜欢交谈，但讨厌倾听。倾听不仅仅是不说话，即使这也超出了我们的大多数能力;它意味着对我们所听到的内容保持强烈的、人性化的兴趣。你可以像一堵空白的墙，或者像一个华丽的礼堂一样聆听，在那里，每一个声音回来的时候都变得更充实、更丰富。
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Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person they are almost indistinguishable.
被倾听与被爱是如此之近，以至于对一般人来说，它们几乎无法区分。
Music is more than just listening to it. People use the music for them protection at times.
音乐不仅仅是听音乐。人们有时用音乐来保护自己。
I like listening to books as well, as that way you can iron at the same time.
我也喜欢听书，因为这样你可以同时熨衣服。
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
在死亡之夜，希望看到一颗星星，倾听爱能听到翅膀的沙沙声。
When you talk to yourself, at least you know that someone is listening.
当你自言自语时，至少你知道有人在听。
I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.
我试着忘记外面的期望和听众对下一件事的期待，这样我就不会试图取悦他们。我花了大量时间不与这些人交流，否认他们的存在。