LISTEN and SILENT are spelled with the same letters
LISTEN（傾聽）和 SILENT（沉默）是用同樣的字母組成的
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Have you ever had someone tell you that you need to be a better listener? That you should listen to others, listen to yourself, and just calm your mind in order to listen. I know I have. It’s something I also share with you all often- that in order to truly understand what is going on with someone you must first listen to what they say and also “see and hear” what they don’t say.
So how does one listen? Truly listen to what your own thoughts are saying or listen to what others are trying to tell you? Typically, the first step involved is to stop talking, right? I mean, correct me if I’m wrong here, but I’ve always been told that when you are listening to someone, you don’t speak at the same time as they do. That would just be silly. You must quiet your own voice and silence your own ego from talking at the same time.
There are many ways to silence the mind, meditation being the more common, but it’s anything that takes you out of the constant moment-to-moment thoughts that pass through your brain every second.
So with all of this, can you take a moment to think about where you can silence your mind in order to truly listen? What has your body/mind/or soul been telling you lately that you haven’t been paying attention to? It’s all there. The answer is right in front of you. All you need to do is create some silence in your own world, your own mind and in your own life, in order to truly listen and hear the answer.