Listen with an open heart.

Listening is not a passive process. That would be like saying that on a musical instrument a string nearby another that is plucked is being held so that it cannot vibrate. In so doing, there is no movement by both strings. If you listen to another with judgment in your heart, you are preventing your own spiritual energy from vibrating in a meaningful way with the spirit of another.

All human beings are given a spirit, an energy, an energy that is capable of being loving, an energy that is capable of moving in consonance with the energies of those nearby. Too often for many different reasons, that energy is prevented from being moved, and it sits there, and that becomes a passive presence. Your gifts of being with others depends solely on your being willing to remove restrictions that you may place into your response to others. There is no love that is grown if you just listen to another with no sense of compassion, of care. The only listening that is truly beneficial is one in which you vibrate with the energies around you.