Spiritual Life and Listening: Learning to Hear With the Heart
Listening to the Holy, listening to others, and listening to ourselves are all vital to the spiritual life. Yet true listening requires courage and vulnerability, for deep listening does not leave us unchanged. To listen attentively is to allow ourselves to be moved, disturbed, and sometimes transformed by what we hear. Silence and the Art of Listening Br David Steindl-Rast — the Benedictine monk and writer — reminds us that 'Without silence there can be no listening.' As I
