We may not ever really understand what others are saying. Rather, we immediately and without thought relate it to ourselves, our world, and respond from our own movie house in which we screen their verbiage.
We may respond as a hedgehog or a skunk, either rolling tightly into our own being, protecting ourselves against any unwanted meaning, or spray the other's emissions with our protective scent, thereby obliterating forever any deeper understanding, any finer comprehension.
To hijack one of Harold Bloom's terms, we "self-overhear."
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This is a wonderful reminder of how we need to take every opportunity to open ourselves to the unfolding of each moment. No judgement; no clinging; no resistance... Just Open...
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