There is an art of listening. To be able to really listen, one should abandon or put aside all prejudices, preformulations and daily activities... But unfortunately most of us listen through a screen of resistance. We are screened with prejudices, whether religious or spiritual, psychological or scientific; or with our daily worries, desires, and fears. And with these for a screen, we listen. Therefore, we listen really to our own noise, to our own sound, not to what is being said. It is extremely difficult to put aside our training, our prejudices, our inclination, our resistance, and reaching beyond the verbal expression, to listen so that we understand instantaneously
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Life is but a Walking Shadow
03/12/2010 • Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. -William Shakespeare
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The Perils of Industry
02/28/2010 • The industrialization of education has created a culture where people seek to become “educated” merely for economic gain and admission into certain circles of society. However, this is not education, it is the result of an industrial effort to mold society into believing that wealth trumps wisdom.
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