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This paper explores compassionate listening as a creative spiritual activity. Such listening recognizes the suffering of others in ways that open up possibilities for healing and transformative communication. The article mixes some of the basic ideas of Eastern thought revolving around the image of the Bodhisattvas. The article concludes that we can only relieve suffering if we attend carefully to the needs, desires, interests, and purposes of others and respond in terms of their best possibility in the situation.