Reality, truth cannot be expressed in words. It can only be known as our direct experience.
Words can point and draw a rendition or representation of truth. Words are pointers but awakening is beyond words.
It is helpful when the listening is the openness and not the engaged mind which is conditioned by the past.
In this open listening, there is no past and no future. There’s just the open aware space of presence.
A Listening space. 
An aware space which points directly to awareness itself.
You will find yourself as this open space, borderless, infinite, free from all mind impressions.
Resting as that, I Am.