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Author: George |
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Date Posted: 18:39:45 05/20/05 Fri The other night my friend caught up with me for a conversation. Well I thought it was a conversation, it actually turned into a long monologue. At the start of it, I could feel her anger, every way I came into contact with her was wrong -- I was looking wrong and touching wrong, so I just listened. And she talked and talked and talked. I kept wanting to respond, to share some other viewpoints for her to consider, to get her to clear. And yet somehow I managed to restrain all of those viewpoints. I just listened like I was taking withholds. Once the charge was all gone, she came back to me. She started touching me, and stroking my leg. I started feeling her again wanting to connect with me, to hear me and feel me. I have been thinking a lot about my words since then. I have a lot of things running through my head, and my natural inclination is to share them at every moment. Then I notice what I want, and how my words get in the way of (most of the time) or support creating the vision I want to manifest. The thing I have been noticing is how much time I spend talking compared to listening. Noticing that the more I listen, the more I learn, and the more I talk the more I tend to non-confront the people I am talking to. Silence is empty cup which holds the thoughts to drink. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |