“‘Deep listening’ is a virtue that anchors every kind of love relationship, and it is the compass [social justice advocate] Sister Simone [Campbell] cites again and again as a creative, openhearted anchor to her life of strong passions and advocacy. She offers these lines of self-appraisal on whether one is being true to deep listening in any situation: ‘Am I responding with generosity? Am I responding with selfishness? Am I responding in a way that builds up people around me, that builds me up, that is respectful of who I am?’ Such questions are tools to start walking willingly towards the more exacting questions of what would it mean, day to day, year to year, to become the beloved community. And how concretely, to begin.”
-Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise, p. 130
