We can discuss our feelings and problems without expecting people to rescue us too. We can settle for being listened to. That’s probably all we ever wanted anyway.

Let me listen to me and not to them.

The less we think about what others might be considering or thinking about us, the more likely we can live the story that our own souls came here to unfold and unveil to the world.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

Meditation is turning off society and listening to yourself.

When we do not expect anything we can be ourselves.

We imagine always when we speak that it is our own ears, our own mind, that are listening.

Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.

Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.

Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.

When we listen, we hear someone into existence.

I find I am more effective when I can listen acceptantly to myself, and can be myself. I feel that over the years I have learned to become more adequate in listening to myself; so that I know, somewhat more adequately than I used to, what I am feeling at any given moment — to be able to realize I am angry, or that I do feel rejecting toward this person; or that I feel very full of warmth and affection for this individual; or that I am bored and uninterested in what is going on; or that I am eager to understand this individual or that I am anxious and fearful in my relationship to this person. All of these diverse attitudes are feelings which I think I can listen to in myself. One way of putting this is that I feel I have become more adequate in letting myself be what I am. It becomes easier for me to accept myself as a decidedly imperfect person, who by no means functions at all times in the way in which I would like to function.

To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness.

the soul has been given it's own ears to hear things the mind does not understand.