When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears - when you give your whole attention to it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Our bodies are hanging along for the ride, but my brain is talking to your brain. And if we want to understand who we are and how we feel and perceive, we really understand what brains are.
When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything.
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
Our understanding is correlative to our perception.
Your body hears everything your mind says.
Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path.
A good listener is usually thinking about something else.
When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.
It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.
Listening is not just hearing what someone tells you word for word. You have to listen with a heart. I don't want that to sound touchy-feely; it is not. It is very hard work.
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