Regarding listening as a conversation skill:
"If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are
always projecting our opinions and ideas, our pejudices, our background,
our inclinations, our impulses; when they dominate we hardly listen at all
to what is being said ...
"In that state there is no value at all. One listens and therefore learns,
only in a state of attention, a state of silence, in which this whole
background is in abeyance, is quiet; then, it seems to me, it is possible
to communicate . . . real communication can only take place where there is
silence."
-- Krishnamurti
Talks and Dialogues
--Grover Partee <gpartee@halcyon.com> Seattle, WA
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