Listening

“Be slow to speak, and only after having first listened quietly, so that you may understand the meaning, leanings, and wishes of those who do speak. Thus you will better know when to speak and when to be silent.” —Saint Ignatius

Most of us live in that first stage of listening where we are waiting for a pause to interject our own information. This is the world we live in, the nowness and instantaneous nature of our culture has made us into selfish neurotics out of necessity. Of course you have to be ready to interject what you want to say in a modern world of constant inundation of information or else you would never get a word in. On the other hand, when you truly listen to another human, you hear way more. Try a mode of only listening for a few minutes. It can be a powerful experience to absorb someone else without the need to formulate a response.

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