Belonging

Jean Vanier on Listening

By Brian Smith

Listening

One of the essential qualities of people with responsibility is an ability to listen to everyone and not just to their friends and admirers. They have to know how people are feeling towards the community and how they are growing. They have to create bonds with them which are true, and if possible, warm.

- Jean Vanier, Community and Growth, p. 225

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