What Silence Teaches Us About Listening

Listening is not waiting until it is your turn again. It is a doing that looks like doing nothing.

The Pause as Punctuation

In every good conversation there are pauses that need fill nothing. They are not a hole but a room. Those who can bear them suddenly hear more — including what was never said.

Some books teach this in passing, between the lines. You read them slowly, and they read you back.