“
I’m
going to tell you something: thoughts are never honest.
Emotions are. Do not go around asking for honesty in what
people think; much of what they perceive as thinking is empty
anyway because it’s thought out again and again and comes
out refined and muddy. The ones who know how to feel might have
to say to you a couple of interesting things or not and when
they do that, you ought to know how to listen. So learn how to
listen. You can’t make someone open up about their
feelings in case they don’t want to. But you can remain
open yourself through listening deeply and completely; they
might want to talk about the weather and keep it simple —
allow them to feel the simplicity…Emotion pours out
directly or indirectly each time people engage themselves in
the process of genuine interaction.
—Albert
Camus
