On Listening

To listen is to continually give up all expectation and to give our attention, completely and freshly, to what is before us, not really knowing what we will hear or what that will mean.

~ Mark Nepo

Practice
If I am filled with expectation or dread, if I am "listening for" something, if I anticipate or presume to know what someone is going to say, I am not really listening.Today I empty myself sufficiently to be able to truly listen.

Forwarded from the Seasons for Nonviolence email http://www.seasonsfornonviolence.com/

Very apt, I couldn't have said this better.