💜 The basic rule for practicing this art is the complete concentration of the listener.
💜Nothing of importance must be on his/her mind, he/she must be optimally free from anxiety as well as from greed.
💜She/He must possess a freely-working imagination which is sufficiently concrete to be expressed in words.
💜She/He must be endowed with a capacity for empathy with another person and strong enough to feel the experience of the other as if it were his own.
💜The condition for such empathy is a crucial facet of the capacity for love. To understand another means to love him/her — not in the erotic sense but in the sense of reaching out to her/him and of overcoming the fear of losing oneself.
💜Understanding and loving are inseparable. If they are separate, it is a cerebral process and the door to essential understanding remains closed.
💜She/He must possess a freely-working imagination which is sufficiently concrete to be expressed in words.
💜She/He must be endowed with a capacity for empathy with another person and strong enough to feel the experience of the other as if it were his own.
💜The condition for such empathy is a crucial facet of the capacity for love. To understand another means to love him/her — not in the erotic sense but in the sense of reaching out to her/him and of overcoming the fear of losing oneself.
💜Understanding and loving are inseparable. If they are separate, it is a cerebral process and the door to essential understanding remains closed.
https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/04/05/erich-fromm-the-art-of-listening/?
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