Posted by Susan47 on April 9, 2007, at 20:19:33
In reply to Re: Hey » Susan47, posted by Declan on April 8, 2007, at 17:21:38
> Hello Susan
>
> Listening (if not understanding) is something that small children do.
> Judgement is inevitable as we grow.
> How we get back to a state of listening and understanding, I don't know.
> Maybe when there is less fear and defensiveness?
> Some contacts are adversarial.
>
> This came to mind, for some reason.
> From Dylan's 'My Back Pages'.....
> Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats
> Too noble to neglect
> Deceived me into thinking
> I had something to protect
> Good and bad, I define these terms
> Quite clear, no doubt, somehow.
> Ah, but I was so much older then,
> I'm younger than that now.I'd say that this Dylan knew something about life. What seemed important, was no longer. The age he'd accumulated at a younger time in his life .. was as unnecessary then as it is now, in he older years. He's found the vitality and the freedom to create new meanings, ways of being nonjudgemental and coming out "younger".
You're a clever one, you are.
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