What does listening require
Listening requires entering actively and imaginatively into the other person's situation and trying to understand a frame of reference different from your own.
And yet, I know artists whose medium is Life itself, and who express the inexpressible without brush, pencil, chisel, or guitar. They neither paint nor dance. Their medium is Being. Whatever their hand touches has increased Life. They SEE and don’t have to draw. They are the artists of being alive.