Listening is the ecology of being,
it opens the doorway to the heart.
Listening creates trust between beings,
listening creates love.
Wherever you find a poverty of communication
you will find a poverty of love,
and wherever you find a poverty of love
you will find a poverty of deep listening.
The most important way in which we exercise our love is by listening.
Empathy is the capacity to listen with the pure heart,
to hear what there is to hear,
to merge and feel all there is to feel;
purely one and into the world of another.
We do not project nor reject the essence of another.
Romantic love is effortless compared to the discipline of true love and the art of listening.
Empathy marks the deepest halls of listening for with it we listen to the actual feelings behind the words being said.
When we enter and pay attention to another's inner world we have no time for our own self obsessions.
Listening is the art of paying attention and is in essence love in action.
Listening actually creates love.
It is love in reality.
So learning how to listen is really learning how to love.
Real listening is a state of meditation and it is the wisest person who listens the deepest.
To communicate everything and listen to the depth of each others being is the basic commitment of real love.
It is the commitment to always put the heart over the separate powers of the mind which does not want to listen.
We need safe non-separate environments in which communication is made easy so love is made easy.
Communication is made easy when there is much love and desire to understand each other.
To listen is to suffer because we do not want to listen to anything that might require a change.
To listen is to change.
We cannot change without listening.
Listening implies a change.
We need to change just to listen.
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Our capacity for love grows automatically as we learn to communicate and listen from deeper levels of being.
It's amazing to me how many seem to just not have the capacity to understand this simple basic truth.
Or maybe it's not really that simple?
Are you up to the challenge?
