Listening is awareness without thought. Practically, this means not thinking while the person to whom I am listening is speaking.
Awareness without thought is a state of radical openness. Saints call it prayer. Secularists call it consciousness. (And really, aren’t labels useless?)
First, I am a space for you. Then we are a space for each other.
Words are not necessary for communication.
More words count less.
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