Our Monthly Spiritual Themes guide our Chalice Circles, which are small, intentional groups of members and friends that gather for spiritual enrichment through personal sharing. For more information on Chalice Circles, please email chalicecircles@uuprinceton.org. Our Chalice Circle thoughts and questions around the theme of Listening this month are:

If you’re listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you’re a bigger moron than they are. – Alice Cooper (rock star)

Does being a listener imply listening to everyone? How do you decide?

Where is the fine line between being a discriminating listener and listening with discrimination?

 

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. – Karl A. Menninger (psychiatrist)

Which do you think is more correct: ‘I think, therefore I am’ or ‘I am seen, therefore I am’?
How closely does our self-realization depend on others listening?

 

I grew up listening to everybody. – Lil Baby (rap artist)

Should we strive to listen as children our whole lives?
What changes occur in the way we listen as we get older?

 

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right. – Jane Goodall (zoologist, primatologist, anthropologist)

Have you ever changed anyone’s mind by first fully understanding their position?