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If I want to listen to you, what you are saying...

If I want to listen to you, what you are saying...

From Public Discussion 1, New Delhi, 2 February 1962

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If I want to listen to you, what you are saying, I must give my attention. I mustn’t think what my neighbour is saying; I mustn’t have opinions; I must listen. So total attention is necessary. Don’t say ‘how’ – there is no ‘how’ – but listen. You will have it if you listen, and the listening is the miracle. If you listen, you pay attention completely, to everything.

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