Listening Can Be

Waiting

Reacting

Responding

Prospecting

Understanding

Key to hearing

Paying attention

A psychological act

An act of composing

Giving consideration

The first step in humility

Hearing what isn't said

A discipline, not a skill

Give attention to a sound

Paying attention to sound

Being affected by what we hear

The foundation of proper living

Key to all effective communication

Making an effort to hear something

The key to everything good in music

Seeking synchronicity with a speaker

Being able to be changed by a speaker

Giving attention to a sound or action

Being alert to catch an expected sound

Being alert and ready to hear something

Harvesting what is in the speaker's mind

Hearing something with thoughtful attention

A lamp that dispels the darkness of ignorance

Taking notice of and acting on what someone says

The oldest and perhaps the most powerful tool of healing

Making and strengthening a connection with another person

Communicating non-verbally that someone is important to us

Paying attention to somebody or something that you can hear

Taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told to us

The best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis

Actively receiving and responding to spoken and unspoken messages

Hearing what others are saying and trying to understand what it means

Accurately receiving and interpreting messages in the communication process

Understanding why someone is saying something, not just what they are saying

Identifying the sounds of speech and processing them into words and sentences

Experiencing heightened awareness or expanded awareness of sound and of silence

A reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us

Receiving, constructing meaning from, and responding to spoken and non-verbal messages

The interpretative action taken in order to understand and make sense of something we hear

A primitive act of love in which we give ourselves to another's word, making us accessible and vulnerable to that word

Attending to a speaker - understanding what they're saying, responding and reflecting on what's being said, and retaining the information for later

Using our ears to receive individual sounds (letters, stress, rhythm and pauses) and using our brain to convert these into messages that mean something to us

The temporary giving up or setting aside of our own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker's world from the inside