Experience Deep Listening

E.M. Forster, an early 20th-century novelist, remains widely read across the world. Beyond his talent for writing significant books, short stories, and plays, he was renowned for being an exceptional conversationalist. One biographer described him in this way: “To speak to him was to be seduced by an inverse charisma, a sense of being listened to with such intensity that you had to be your most honest, sharpest, and best self.” What a powerful statement. Wouldn’t we all desire to be heard to that degree? How can we be like Forster, or, more importantly, like Jesus, who was willing to listen…