A moral choice

There is a moment, just before a conversation starts,
when we decide whether we are truly available to the Other.
That moment, barely visible, shapes everything that follows.

Listening is not the gathering of words.
It is the willingness to stay with what has not yet taken form.
It asks us to set aside our certainty,
to make room for something we do not yet understand.

Within the Global Listening Movement, people meet in that open, uneasy space
between knowing and not knowing.
From New Zealand to Nigeria, they do not search for one right way to listen,
but for ways to remain human amid noise, speed, and judgment.

We all know how it feels not to be heard.
And we know, too, how the world changes tone when someone truly wonders what we mean.

Listening is not a technique.
It is a moral choice to stay present,
with one another, with what is complex,
with what cannot yet be said.

That is where change begins.
Not in what we speak, but in how we are willing to hear.