David Isay — Listening as an Act of Love

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On Being : David Isay — Listening as an Act of Love Image

David Isay — Listening as an Act of Love

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“The soul is contained in the human voice,” says David Isay, founder of StoryCorps. He sees the StoryCorps booth — a setting where two people ask the questions they’ve always wanted to ask each other — as a sacred space. He shares his wisdom about listening as an act of love, and how eliciting and capturing our stories is a way of insisting that every life matters.