When you listen, it's amazing what you can learn. When
you act on what you've learned, it's amazing what you can change. [Audrey
McLaughlin]
It is NOT always convenient to listen. Especially it is NOT
convenient when what I hear virtually up-ends my BEliefs and how I roll. And still, I listen. I have learned that much
in Life…
The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the
word 'silent'. [Alfred Brendel]
Things like this stop me cold. It is like I am just BEcoming
aware of all I couldn’t [wouldn’t?!] see or hear or know BEfore Right Now.
Listening does NOT require so much as I have thought. It
merely requires that I suspend my judgments and stop thinking about what I will
say when I next have “my turn” to talk.
I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence
and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own. It talks to me
sometimes. I feel myself alive in it…
…It has a strange, beautiful texture. It doesn't always
talk. Sometimes - sometimes it cries, and you can hear the pain of the world in
it. It hurts to listen to it then. But you have to. [Chaim Potok, The Chosen]
It is a remarkable thing to
listen to silence…
I love you, Currie
1 comment:
Silence has been a newer thing for me in general the past year or so. I used to pop on the TV for company in the morning and have it on all day. Now I don't turn on the TV during the week until dinner time in the evening. I do listen to music sometimes--but I have on the wordless, relaxation type music (good for my blood pressure). I write and read more than I used to. ;)
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