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.
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.
Our capacity for love grows automatically
as we learn to communicate and listen
from deeper levels of being.
