往往一个难题解不开时，不妨再加上另一道难题，一并考虑，反而有时能找到意外的解决办法。就如同你把两个胡桃凑在一起敲碎，比一个个分别敲容易。
［摘自］弗洛伊德《梦的解析》
若你渴望被神使用，必须容让神来对付你，尤其是口舌和言语。神给你许多耳朵。你要不断被破碎，直到神说话了，你才说话。
［摘自］《点舌成金》
想象力比知识更重要
爱因斯坦说过：“想象力比知识更重要。”记忆是过去，是有限的；愿景是未来，是无限的。愿景比历史更卓越，比包袱更卓越，比过去的感情伤痕更卓越。
别人问爱因斯坦如果允许他问一个问题，他将问上帝什么问题，爱因斯坦说道：“我会问宇宙是怎样产生的？因为以后的一切都只是个数学问题。”他想了一会后改变了主意。他说：“我会问为什么要把宇宙创造出来？因为只有明白了这个问题之后，我才能知道自己生活的意义。”
也许最重要的愿景是发展一种自我意识，一种对自己的目标的意识，一种对于自己在生活中的独特使命和独特角色的意识，一种关于目的和意义的意识。测试自己的个人愿景的时候，首先问自己：这个愿景是否唤起了我的心声、我的能力、我的独特天赋？它是否给予我一种“召唤”的感觉，给予我一个值得我献身的事业？这种做法要求深入的个人反思，提出深刻的问题并发挥自己的想象力。
［摘自］《高效人士的第八个习惯》
在更高的爱里有一种超乎理性的成分，既不能也不尝试解释自己为何去爱，只是微声说道：“我爱！”在完全的爱里，心灵不需理解自己如何“从倾慕到深爱”，只是迅速升至崇拜的高峰，在那里，理性被悬空了，心灵在不可言喻的福祉中敬拜，只能高呼：“圣哉，圣哉，圣哉！”却差点儿不晓得那是什么意思。
——A. W. Tozer
［Hillsong］Desert Song
沙漠中的祈祷，干裂的唇，饥渴的心，坚持的足印……每一滴泪，是颗颗晶莹剔透的钻石，在岁月中熠熠生辉。
VERSE 1:
This is my prayer in the desert
When all that’s within me feels dry
This is my prayer in my hunger and need
My God is the God who provides
VERSE 2:
This is my prayer in the fire
In weakness or trial or pain
There is a faith proved
Of more worth than gold
So refine me Lord through the flame
CHORUS:
I will bring praise
I will bring praise
No weapon formed against me shall remain
I will rejoice
I will declare
God is my victory and He is here
VERSE 3:
This is my prayer in the battle
When triumph is still on its way
I am a conqueror and co-heir with Christ
So firm on His promise I’ll stand
BRIDGE:
All of my life
In every season
You are still God
I have a reason to sing
I have a reason to worship
VERSE 4:
This is my prayer in the harvest
When favour and providence flow
I know I’m filled to be emptied again
The seed I’ve received I will sow
我们常有一个危机，就是忘记自己不能做神所做的事，同时，神也不会替我们做我们所能做的事。我们不能拯救自己，不能叫自己成圣，这只有神才能做。但是，神也不会给我们好习惯、好品格，使我们行事正直，我们必须自己去努力。
——Oswald Chamblers
聽
中文的繁体字“聽”居然涵盖了COUNSELLING中有关听的教导的重要元素——用耳、用心、用眼——全神贯注地听。
听见，不等于听。听，是正视的姿势，是温暖的眼神，是关切的态度。听，是一生关于“爱”的功课。
很多时候，不需要特别的沟通技巧，不需要敏锐的洞察力，不需要深入浅出的人生哲理，JUST BE THERE AND LISTEN，就足以能抚慰一颗受伤的心灵。
I want to be heard
I want to hear you,
see what you see,
feel what you feel.
I want to be heard.
Hear me as I hear you,
listen, I’m listening to you.
So I will speak simply
with clear word windows
that let you see all the way in
to where I live laugh and cry.
——David Augsburger
How do you listen?
Please listen when I talk,
but don’t only listen with your ears,
because if you do, you might not hear all I’m saying,
for I do not only talk with my mouth.
Listen with your eyes — look at me — watch me.
My actions may be saying more than my words.
You must listen with your eyes because I speak with my eyes.
My eyes are the mouthpieces of my inner self.
The inner me is the real me, the me you need to know.
Listen with your mouth — I need to know you are hearing me,
That you are interested — that you care.
Most of all listen to me with your heart, for I talk mainly with my heart.
My voice might say, ‘How are you, what are you doing?’
And your ears may hear this — but my heart might be yelling,
‘Ask me how I am!’ Get me to talk.
I need to talk — If you don’t listen with your heart
you won’t hear, and I’ll be afraid to really talk to you.
But if you will listen with your heart you will hear,
And I will talk and you will listen,
And the rainbow will seem to have more colour.
——Unkown author
