How do you listen? Do you listen with your projections, through your projection, through your ambitions, desire, fears, anxieties, through hearing only what you want to hear, only what will be satisfactory, what will gratify, what will give comfort, what will for the moment alleviate your suffering? If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
Unfortunately, I know I can be guilty of filtering information and therefore listening to my own voice, but I definitely make a concerted effort to remain open to the real messages that are being put out there for me to hear. Thanks for sharing this beautiful message to help us keep our minds and ears open.
Can’t we all!
Love this, Tammy. Just shared with all my peeps. Thanks for your excellent content as always. -J
Thanks, Judy, I appreciate that. I was so taken with this quotation when I came across it.
Thank you for this quote. It is both humbling, empowering and perfect to share and discuss with trainee counselors and such a salient reminder to all those already ‘trained’. Thanks again.
I like your point that the quote is both humbling and empowering, Zelinda — a tough balance to pull off!
I listen for what I don’t already know. What I often hear is much of what I already do know, said in a different way. My challenge is to discern the new stuff from the old. Gotta love Krishamurti thank you
It’s a good goal to discern the new stuff from the old. I also tend to believe that if the old is being re-said, there’s something the speaker doesn’t think the listener really, truly gets.
yes the gift of giving until I get it is an important gift. And also that I now have ears to hear and the teachers are coming out of the woodwork all with the same message said in a slightly different way. “when the student is ready the Teacher will appear” Buddhist Proverb
Tammy, this quote gets to heart of another communication philosophy and approach to human interaction that lives and plays in Rumi’s field along with Conflict Zen! Not surprisingly, I’m referring to Nonviolent Communication (NVC), founded by Marshall Rosenberg. Thank you for fertilizing the ground…
Rumi’s shown up three times in my week so far. Hmmm.