Wednesday, 16 July 2025

What Does It Mean to Listen?

This one turns toward listening—not as reception, but as a form of attunement, response, and ethical presence:

TOPO:
Listening is hearing, isn’t it?

RHEO:
Not quite.
Hearing is passive. Listening leans toward.

TOPO:
So it’s not just receiving—it’s reaching?

RHEO:
Yes. Listening is a way of being with.
It opens space for the other to emerge.

TOPO:
Then to listen is not to wait for your turn to speak—
but to be changed by what you hear?

RHEO:
Exactly.
To listen well is to risk transformation.

TOPO:
So listening is not a skill. It’s a stance.

RHEO:
A relation.
And a form of care.


RHEO & TOPO:
To listen is to become porous—
and let the world echo within you.

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