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Cultivating Connection.
The Spiritual Conscious Creator / Activist Library
Never in the history of humankind have we had so many means of communication — cell phones, texting, e-mail, online social media — but we are more distant from each other than ever.
There is remarkably little true communication between family members, between members of society, between nations. As a civilization, we surely have not cultivated the arts of listening and speaking to a satisfactory degree. We don’t know how to really listen to each other. Most of us have precious little ability to express ourselves or listen to others with openness and sincerity.
When we can’t communicate, energy gets blocked inside and it makes us sick; and as our sickness increases, we suffer, and our suffering spills over onto other people. If we want to be more connected to others, we don’t need to test them more; we need to listen to them more. Deep listening leads to understanding. Understanding leads to greater connection. The way to listen more deeply is not simply to try harder. Rather, it is to take time in practice that starts with silence — that is, with quieting our internal Radio Non-Stop Thinking.
