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Radical Amazement
Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement…to be spiritual is to be amazed.
— Abraham Josgua Heschel
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You are the books you read, the movies you watch, the music
you listen to.
You are the people you stay with, the conversations you engage
in, the sport you play.
You are everything you do every day, everything you surround
yourself with every day — it shapes you, your attitude and your life.
Choose wisely.
— The Nirznarene
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Deep listening, compassionate listening is not listening with the purpose of analyzing or even uncovering what has happened in the past. You listen first of all in order to give the other person relief, a chance to speak out, to feel that someone finally understands him or her.
Deep listening is the kind of listening that helps us to keep compassion alive while the other speaks, which may be for half an hour or forty-five minutes. During this time you have in mind only one idea, one desire: to listen in order to give the other person the chance to speak out and suffer less.
This is your only purpose. Other things like analyzing, understanding the past…
