The Art of Conscious Conversations

CONCLUSION

A Lifelong Journey

How did the rose ever open its heartAnd give to this world all of its beauty?It felt the encouragement of light against its being,Otherwise we all remain too frightened.

—HAFIZ, Persian mystic and poet

In the introduction, I promised to show the reader how to engage in better conversations. I hope that over the course of your reading of this book you have noticed a shift in yourself and that you are newly attuned to nuances in conversations. If you have, then chances are good that you have become a better observer of yourself and that you are learning to minimize your inner critic, increase your empathy, and sharpen your sense of humor. Each small effort we make toward having more conscious conversations helps us ...