Hearing Someone Who Hasn't Spoken

John interviewer: Hi, this is John with Heartspeak. I’m here with Olga and Cheryl.

Cheryl, you told me that in your high school yearbook, your friends wrote something about you. What did they write?

Cheryl: In my senior year—my senior yearbook—it was written, “Quiet until you get to know her.”

And I assumed that it was because, yes, I am usually quiet until I get to know people—then I open up and I talk, and I give my opinion. appreciation or whatever. And this is—this is really—I never really realized that that’s who I am. I am quiet until you get to know me.

John interviewer: Olga, you had a perspective on this.

Olga: When she said those words, and I first heard the words, I was not aware that it was actually in her yearbook. So, when she said, “Quiet until you get to know me,” the message that I received was—I need to be quiet in order to get to know her, or in order to get to know anyone around me.

Because in that quietness, I can listen to the inner voice of that person’s soul that is actually speaking—but it’s not able to.

John interviewer: Yes, I think that happens with a lot of people who are—who maybe, I don’t know if you call them introverts, or just quiet people, shy people—who aren’t outgoing, and maybe have a more personal, private perspective on life. And nobody takes the time to really be quiet enough to get to hear them—hear who they are.

And they don’t take the time. 

Olga: You don’t have to have a person talk to you or listen to you or answer you in order to get to connect with who that person is. That person is actually speaking to you on a different level. But you have to quiet yourself to receive the information that they’re talking to you.

John interviewer: You can hear them? You can hear them with your eyes—in an eye communication, in addition. 

Olga: No, when you’re connecting with the eyes, you are outside of yourself there’s not just the eye. The eye of the heart connects with the eye of her heart..And let’s me know why is she quiet? She doesn’t have to be loud for me to know her or like her. She can be whoever she is. But I can go there with her. I can be in her quietness and get to know who she is—without her speaking a word.

John interviewer: Thank you.