I do not know if you have ever examined how you listen, it doesn't matter to what, whether to a bird, to the wind . . . to the rushing waters . . . in a dialogue with yourself . . . If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our background, our inclinations, our impulses; when they dominate we hardly listen to what is being said . . :. One listens and therefore learns, only in a state of attention, a state of silence, in which the whole background is in abeyance, is quiet; then, it seems to me it is possible to communicate.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti, Living in Balance by Joel Levey, Michelle Levey