LIstening Unfolding

 

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“The power of listening is a suspended realization. Awaiting completion. Words miss what they designate. What is said is constantly measured against the unformulable label that secretly supports these words. […] It is not one and the other who are listening to each other; it is actually listening that is unfolding between them. The gentleness arises because it connects two strangers who have become intimate; once or twice a week, same time, same place. These strangers were once children whose thoughts, imagination, fears, longing amazement, feelings of love are lodged in fragments of light in the body. In words, in what lights up their eyes. The power of listening is an activator, in the folds—as understood by Deleuze—of the psyche that are micro-recorders of the real.” ~ Anne Dufourmantelle, Power of Gentleness: Meditations on the Risks of Living  ~ (Via AOAC) ~