“To be able to really listen, one should abandon or put aside all prejudices…When you are in a receptive state of mind, things can be easily understood…but, unfortunately, most of us listen through a screen of resistance.  We are screened with prejudices, psychological or scientific, or with daily worries, desires and fears.  And with these fears for a screen, we listen.  Therefore, we listen really to our own noise, our own sound, not to what is being said.”

~ Krishnamurti ~