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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9210081.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %ACTIVE LISTEN TALK DIALOGUE HEAR HONEST ADDICT 921008 Why do we not hear what each other says often? Why is there so much misunderstanding? The reasons are many, yet many of the reasons for not hearing and not understanding can be "corrected". Often the words we use mean different things to different people who live and operate according to different paradigms, assumptions, beliefs, perceptions, convictions, ideals, and values. Often out of fear we do not want to hear what different people are trying to tell us. We may be involved in collusions which cherish misleading views and threaten us if we take seriously any challenges to those misleading views; if so, listening to people with differing views can be very threatening. Why should we listen to people who are fundamentally different from us, if they might expose our self deceptions, undermine our cherished misleading views, and threaten our dishonest paradigm? Why should we permit our friends to listen to people who are fundamentally different from us. As fundamentalists we want our friends to stick to the fundamentals of our cherished views and convictions; and avoid listening to people who are fundamentally different from us in any way. We are driven by fear, and do not know how to fear the devastations which people driven by fear can bring upon themselves and others. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================