Listening
We cannot do much to lengthen our lives. Having a good diet
helps. Exercise is also good. Being happy is one of the best
tonics of all. Still, there are no guarantees.
But in terms of improving the quality of our lives, here
everything — or almost everything — depends on
us.
One way we enhance our everyday is with listening.
We need to be careful — where practical — to
listen fully to all who speak to us. To give them this gift,
this honor. Moreover, we must do this not only for others. We
must do it also for ourselves.
We need to listen selflessly — to hear the words, the
pauses — to listen to the mouths, the faces, the hands,
the hearts, the cries. We need to imagine that within the
words we hear is precious advice — advice to make us
the happiest, wisest, strongest, wealthiest people in the
world.
To listen to others adds new, fascinating dimensions to our
lives.
