Personality Adjustment for Conversation : Page 152

The conversational dilemma remains: everyone wants to talk about what is on his mind, yet to be a good conversationalist he must let his hearer, or must seem to let him, relieve himself of what is on his. If you were a saint, I should find it easy to tell you what to do. Simply keep fighting back your own urge to find someone to listen to what's on your mind and try to make yourself a willing receptacle of what is on that of others. I tell you quite sincerely that this would make you immensely popular. I also believe that God in His kindness would quickly give you the grace of such a deep sympathy with others' problems that what is on your