Good morning everyone,

Here is today's quote:

You know, there are two ways of listening: to listen casually, to hear a series of ideas, agreeing or disagreeing with them; or there is another way of listening, which is not only to listen to the words and the meaning of those words, but also to listen to what is actually taking place in yourself.

If you listen in this way, then what the speaker says is related to what you are listening to in yourself; then you are not merely listening to the speaker—which is irrelevant—but to the whole content of your being. And if you are listening in that way with intensity, at the same time and at the same level, then we are both of us partaking, sharing together, in what is actually taking place. Then you have the passion which is going to transform that which is.

Beyond Violence, pp 37-38.

Here is my reflection.

I think this is what is taking place in the conversations between K and Alan Anderson. This was Anderson's gift, to be able to observe himself as he was speaking and thinking. This is what made it such an expansive inquiry.

It now seems see onvious that just to listen to someone, what they are saying and no more, is such a small way of living. It seems so obvious that we must observe ourselves as we speak. If we understand ourselves then there is understanding; not of one thing but a total understanding; one of the whole mechanism of living.

Best wishes

Robert