GETTING TO THE MEANINGS BEHIND THE WORDS

To be able to achieve “deep listening” (Morpheus #50), you have to learn how to deal with words as symbols and question them to get to the references and meanings they refer to. By themselves, words do not mean anything. Whether as a sound spoken into the air or as a set of scribbles written on paper, if you do not know the code— the words themselves will mean nothing to you. Just look at any set of words that are part of a language that’s foreign to you, or listen to a language that you do not know. The meaning is not in the words.