Listening: The Lost Compass
It's amazing how much you can glean and learn by listening. And I mean real listening, not 'hearing'. Nor am I talking of ''enter through this ear and exit through the other''. Listening by feeling the words as they flow from the mouth. Listening by smelling the fragrance inherent in the syllables, phrases and/or clauses. Listening by tasting the rhythm and flow of the spoken words or sound and savoring their flavor. Such, my dear reader is the real beauty that has been lost on us the human race. The human being has the capability of listening to virtually anything. We can listen to speech, music, body movement (body language), nature, and even silence. We can listen by reading as some people are doing as they read this my write-up. We can listen to anguish and pain when we see it just as we listen to joy and happiness which often-times we hearken to. Now one might wonder what on earth is this bloke talking about?!! Well that's a clas...