Ancient tradition has given voice to this fact. However, we are in an aurally dulled state. The eyes are frontal, in terms of their physical placement as well as our self-conception. The position of the ears is resoundingly to the side. The eyes appear to us to be the most vital of the five senses.
People think in terms of what they see and how things look .
In personal relationships and in soul work, it is the eyes that we long to gaze into - a lover's, a friend's or our own in the mirror. The eyes, we assume, are the real center of knowing. The ears, to the side, are more problematic. There is something questionable about them. Even their shape suggests a question mark.