God said:

In terms of the world, there are at least two parties who communicate. One is called the speaker, and the other is called the listener. True conversation is a beautiful tango. One leads, one follows. They both lead. They both follow. The listener really listens, doesn't interrupt, listens deeply until it’s his turn. Then there is role-reversal. Good speaker becomes good listener. There is no infringing. Each role is priceless.

It is hard for some people to express what they really want to express. For others, it is easier to speak than to listen. Speaker and listener are both essential. Without speaking and listening, where can communion lie?

If you are the listener at a particular moment, you may just be waiting for your turn to talk. Waiting eagerly to speak your heart isn't listening. It is counting the seconds until it is your turn.

For the want of listening, friendships have been given up.

One or the other, or both parties, shrug their shoulders and think: "He doesn't give a hoot. Why should I care?"

Friendships are broken. Wars start. All from an inability to listen. Sides are taken. There becomes a need not to listen as if listening were weakness.

Listening is a great skill. It is necessary for survival.

Goodness knows, you don't want someone to butter you up, nor do you want to pretend any more than you want to be pretended to. You want to understand, and you want to be understood. How important it is to be heard, and how important it is to hear.

Love is your grandest expression of self. ~Archangel Gabriel

http://trinityesoterics.com/2017/01/17/daily-message-tuesday-january-17-2017/

It is time to start a riot, my lovely ones!  A riot of joy, love, excitement, forward movement…..one of kisses and hugs, of caring, compassion and empathy.  This is not meant to be an ‘underground’ movement, but one of open and wondrous growth for all!  Take your places, it is beginning! ~ Creator

https://thecreatorwritings.wordpress.com/2017/01/17/take-your-places/

God said:

Optimism is not superficial. It is not pie in the sky. It is one of the most supportive tools in life you have.

Optimism is success-oriented. It is the opposite of pessimism. Pessimism is denial of what life could offer you if you were open to it.

Pessimism, upheld as realism, is definitely playing the odds that you see for yourself as not so hotsy-totsy. Odds are often not good, yet where is it written that life must be made up of playing only fabulous odds? In this way, you may well keep great opportunity away from you. Don't count yourself out so easily.

You may think you are super-intelligent to point out to yourself and to others how unlikely the chances may be of hitting your target. What do you care if you have a one in a thousand chances to win when you win? For sure, if you don't go for it, you won't win.

Let's consider for a moment that in having the courage to go for what you want regardless of the odds in or out of your favor, you are stirring nature. You give life an opportunity.

If you give up on yourself beforehand, you set a low vibration for achieving. If you have an idea to start a business, let's say, and everyone in the world says your idea will never work, and you give up on your idea, what are the odds of achieving your dream? They are nil.

This happens every day. Someone listens to someone else, and gives up his dream.

Release yourself from ‘linear thinking’. Rather than going from A to B to C, have fun jumping around from A to Q to G to Z and back again. When you relinquish control of how things should be, anything is possible. ~ Creator

https://thecreatorwritings.wordpress.com/2017/01/16/have-fun-2/