In today's group session we talked about the power and potency of listening...how it can heal, re-connect and actually become a spiritual practice that leads to peace. If anyone has worked on this or even just tried it, please let us know in the comments about your experiences. Rudolf Steiner on listening and following another's thoughts.... "[….] instead of taking an interest merely in my own way of thinking, and in what I consider right, I must develop a selfless interest in every opinion I encounter, however strongly I may hold it to be mistaken. The more a man prides himself on his own dogmatic opinions and is interested only in them, the further he removes himself, at this moment of world-evolution, from the Christ. The more he develops a social interest in the opinions of other men, even though he considers them erroneous—the more light he receives into his own thinking from the opinions of others—the more he does to fulfill in his inmost soul a saying of Christ, which to-day must be interpreted in the sense of the new Christ-language. Christ said: “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.” The Christ never ceases to reveal Himself anew to men—even unto the end of earthly time. And thus He speaks to-day to those willing to listen: “In whatever the least of your brethren thinks, you must recognise that I am thinking in him; and that I enter into your feeling, whenever you bring another’s thought into relation with your own, and whenever you feel a fraternal interest for what is passing in another’s soul. Whatever opinion, whatever outlook on life, you discover in the least of your brethren, therein you are seeking Myself.” Source: Rudolf Steiner – GA 193 – Inner Aspect of the Social Question – Lecture II – 11 February 1919, Zurich Artist: George Kofas