Good morning everyone,

Here is today's quote:

There is an art of listening. The word “art” implies putting everything in its right place. If you understand the meaning of that word, the real art is not painting pictures, but the art of putting your life in its proper place, which is to live harmoniously. When you have put everything in yourself in its right place, you are free. Putting everything in its right place is part of intelligence. You will say we are giving a new meaning to that word “intelligence”. One must. Intelligence implies reading between the lines, between the words, between two silences, between speech, listening with your mind all the time alert to listen. You hear not only with the ear, but also without the ear.

On Love and Loneliness, pp 87-88

Here is my reflection.

Here K is talking about an opening to listening, which is an art. To put everything in yourself in order such that you can listen. This is to observe everything within you that doesn't listen, that reduces listening to the "science" of what has already been heard. To live harmoniously is to make life an art. There is an art to inteligence and it is listening. The listening is the miracle; one who listens has experienced a radical inward transformation.

Best wishes

Robert