1.
The basic
rule for practicing The Art of Listening is the complete concentration of the
listener.
2.
Nothing of
importance must be on our mind; we must be optimally free from anxiety as well
as from greed.
3.
We must
possess a freely working imagination, which is sufficiently concrete to be
expressed in words.
4.
We must be
endowed with a capacity for empathy with another person and strong enough to
feel the experience of the other as if it were our own.
5.
The
condition for such empathy is a crucial facet of the capacity for love. To
understand another means to love him, not in the erotic sense but in the sense
of reaching out to him and of overcoming the fear of losing ourselves.
6.
Understanding
and loving are inseparable. If they are separate, it is a cerebral process and
the door to essential understanding remains closed.
“Understanding and loving are
inseparable. If they are separate, it is a cerebral process and the door to
essential understanding remains closed.”
Erich Fromm (1900–1980)
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