Kindle Notes & Highlights
Compassion (spiritual development) and understanding comes from listening impartially to the whole space/time continuum of sound, not just what one is presently concerned about. In this way, discovery and exploration can take place. New fields of thought can be opened and the individual may be expanded and find opportunity to connect in new ways to communities of interest. Practice enhances openness.
Lou Gottlieb’s secret for listening to non-stop rappers: “Just listen to the melody of their talk, not to the content, as you would listen to a babbling brook”.51
The depth of listening is related to the expansion of consciousness brought about by inclusive listening. Inclusive listening is impartial, open and receiving and employs global attention. Deep Listening has limitless dimensions. Attention narrows for exclusive listening. Exclusive listening gathers detail and employs focal attention. Focal attention is necessarily limited and specific. The depth of exclusive listening is clarity. Listening is a spatial/temporal phenomenon. Sound/silence is continual.
