"Listen and attend with the ear of your heart"

This is a quotation from St Benedict. When he says listen, I do not think that he means the mental act of hearing sound go through one’s ears, but the engagement of one’s whole self in the “listening”. My interpretation of this would be that what Benedict was saying was that if we integrate our thoughts, feelings, whole-hearted desires and everything of ourselves to “listen”, then we may be mindful of God’s presence in every aspect of our lives. I guess in the monastic life, this comes as part of lectio divina (holy reading) and prayer—listening to what God is calling one to do by looking into the deepest desires of one’s heart to see exactly what kind of problems one might face and what strategies and solutions one can come up with. Tell me what you think?