Listen ...

There really is a sound to silence and such important things can be sensed when no noise is being made.

As well ... when silence is broken you should listen to and sense the sound.

When someone speaks we should try to press into and pull from what they are saying. When someone speaks ... as opposed to when someone talks ... there is a difference and usually if you are paying attention you notice the shift in your own awareness as you get a little nudge from your better judgment self saying ... "LISTEN".

There as so many quotes, phrases and proverbs about listening. I don't need to list them. We should all have at least one favorite quote on listening and we should live by it as often as possible. One of my favorites is from the corporate America guru, Stephan Covey. To paraphrase he says "seek first to understand, then to be understood". This one takes listening to the point of feeling what you are hearing.

The senses have always been listed as if they fall under one category yet if we look at their range ... to see, to taste, to smell, to touch (feel), and this subject is to hear ... shouldn't we do them all at the same time ... consciously. After all, we can so we should.