2.81
The first step is to learn how to listen to listening, how to attend to attending, for listening cannot be determined in advance. This can’t be emphasized enough: if you know what respect is, you’ve already shown that you don’t.
Ethics quintessentially involves uncertainty.
We listen to things, we listen to the world. We listen to ourselves, as listener, being listened to. We listen to listening.
Listening calls for reorientation, for it opens to itself as to the openness of a question (§2.40).