Listening and beholding are ways of paying attention that are participatory acts of empathic connection. They acknowledge more than one perspective and complex of reactions. The listener receives the other, choosing to absorb what the other is communicating. In acts of engaged attention both persons are vulnerable to the other's impression and response. In being beheld and in beholding another visually - ''drinking in'' the other with one's eyes - we are changed.
Susan S Phillips
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