Deep Listening is listening to everything all the time, and reminding yourself when you're not. But going below the surface too, it's an active process. It's not passive. I mean hearing is passive in that soundwaves hinge upon the eardrum. You can do both. You can focus and be receptive to your surroundings. If you're tuned out, then you're not in contact with your surroundings. You have to process what you hear. Hearing and listening are not the same thing.
Interpretation
Deep Listening emphasizes the active engagement required to truly comprehend our surroundings, distinguishing it from mere hearing.
The quote by Pauline Oliveros highlights the significant difference between hearing and listening, where the latter entails an active, engaged process that involves deep attentiveness to all auditory input. Deep Listening encourages individuals to not only absorb sounds passively but to be fully aware and responsive to their environment, suggesting that true understanding comes from a conscious effort to engage with the myriad of sounds that surround us.
In practice
This quote can be used in a workshop on communication skills to emphasize the importance of active listening.
Deep Listening is listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear no matter what you are doing. Such intense listening includes the sounds of daily life, of nature, or one's own thoughts as well as musical sounds. Deep Listening represents a heightened state of awareness and connects to all that there is. As a composer I make my music through Deep Listening
I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.
If we begin to get in touch with whatever we feel with some kind of kindness, our protective shells will melt, and we'll find that more areas of our lives are workable. AS we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others-what and whom we can work with, and how-becomes wider.
Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.
The first real terror struck him then, and there was nothing supernatural about it. It was only a realization of how easy it was to trash your life. That was what was so scary. You just dragged the fan up to everything you had spent the years raking together and turned the motherfucker on.
What you do has far greater impact than what you say.
We all make mistakes, we all have fears, and we all have weaknesses. Behind all that is our essential self. When our essential self has made contact with another, the light is dazzling and would fill the universe. The challenge of enchantment is to remain faithful to that light, to believe in it when it is not so apparent. Then that light becomes an incandescent glow and it wraps itself around everything.
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