Right Speech - Right Listening
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From our Right Speech Dharna talk "As humans, we are worded beings – we engage with the world through the abstraction of language. The thing we call “us” is a language created story. It makes sense that words can both heal and harm and reveal and hide. Our very existence in a languaged existence; verbal and non- verbal. Is that the reason we all long to be heard, to be deeply listened to?"
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