Be there

A strange thought occured to me now. Look at the world through other's eyes. Completely and without judgment. Just let them talk, give opinion, say whatever comes to their mind and never, never interfere when they talk. Don't prompt when they are looking for a word. Wait. Wait and listen. With the patience of a hawk. Wait and watch how they react. Just look with eyes and ears open. Be so absent in the other's presence that s/he speaks openly, unreservedly, without fear of being contradicted or judged. Be gone, get lost, be nowhere, be not where the other is. Listen, observe. Without interruption. Let it flow, whatever it is, from their mind, from their heart, from their lips, from their hands, from their movements, from the look in their eyes, from the breath through their nostrils, from the shuffling of their feet, from the trembling of their fingers, from the tightening of their veins in the temples, in the jaws, in the arms. Just be, without being active, without being gentle or rude, without aching to know, without bothering to understand, without encouraging or otherwise, without caring or being sympathetic, without condemning or justifying, without patience or irritation. Just be, with your eyes and ears open, with watchfulness and alertness, without a thought in the mind or an expression in the face, like a stone idol, passive, aware, available. Say nothing, do nothing, no geatures, no movement. Be there, yet make not your presence loud.
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