One never listens to another. If I tell you something, your mind is thinking of something else, or your mind is occupied with how to understand what the other is saying. A child, when you’re telling a story, they listen to you and get very excited – it’s a good story, they listen to you. But we won’t listen. We listen partially because our mind is cluttered with so many things.
From an Interview by Edwin Oostmejer, Brockwood Park, 15 October 1984