The speaker is not important

The speaker is not important. What is important is that you listen to what is being said because what is being said is an exposition of yourself. Treat the speaker as a telephone – he is not important. If you pick up the telephone and there is resistance to what is being said, antagonism, then what is the speaker to do? If you are antagonistic to what is being said, I am awfully sorry, don’t be antagonistic. That doesn’t get you very far, but you like to be antagonistic because what is being said upsets all your theories, your pleasures, your hopes and commitments.