The Psychology of Listening

Love expressed as listening, love expressed as change, these are the highest expressions of love.

The most important way
in which we exercise our love
is by listening.
Empathy is the capacity to listen
with the pure heart,
to hear what there is to hear,
to merge and feel all there is to feel;
purely one and into the world of another.
We do not project nor reject
the essence of another.
Romantic love is effortless
compared to the discipline
of true love and the art of listening

Listening is the ecology of being,
it opens the doorway to the heart.
Listening creates trust between beings,
listening creates love.

To listen is to suffer
because we do not want to listen
to anything that might require a change.
To listen is to change.
We cannot change without listening.
Listening implies a change.
We need to change just to listen.