The following is my current Free Will Astrology Horoscope from Rob Brezsny. It really hits home and is a lesson that I often need work on. As anyone who knows me, can tell you, I'm a terrible listener. I need to cultivate a sense of active listening.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): I've got a challenging assignment for you. In
accordance with your current astrological omens, I am inviting you to
cultivate a special kind of receptivity -- a rigorously innocent openness to
experience that will allow you to be penetrated by life's beauty with
sublime intensity. To understand the exact nature of this receptivity,
study Abraham Maslow's definition of *real* listening: to listen "without
presupposing, classifying, improving, controverting, evaluating, approving
or disapproving, without dueling what is being said, without rehearsing the
rebuttal in advance, without free-associating to portions of what is being
said so that succeeding portions are not heard at all."
Perhaps its time to read a little more of Maslow's study and start listening an stop talking.
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