Taking Another's Point of View 
There are endless occasions to express our own point of view. It is invariably limited, a mere part, maybe even false. Others can fill us in with the missing truths and parts of a matter, enabling us to know the Whole. It is always available if we are willing to take another's point of view. Mind is exclusive; it does not want to hear other sides of a matter. Hence our essential Ignorance. When we take another's position, however, we move out of Ignorance in that moment and embrace the wider truths. Even if that person seems dead wrong in our eyes, we should consider the truth behind the words. There is always something to be learned, so we can attain the many-sided knowledge. Each time we do, life will move in our favor.

A man didn't want to work weekends at a retail store when requested to by his boss. He thought he was already working hard during the week. One day he shifted and accepted the boss' point of view. When he arrived that weekend, he was suddenly greeted with the biggest sale of his life.

We know the part, not all truths of a matter. If we open to what others say. we not only gain a far greater knowledge of a matter, but sudden good fortune moves in our direction. Often it is life-changing.

Benefit of Taking Another's Point of View
To make spiritual progress, it is often urged to look at the issue from another man’s point of view. This is the view of understanding of truth consciousness. Such an approach can have the ironic affect of protecting you from harm or difficulties coming from others though knowledge that comes your way, or otherwise be of great benefit or interest to you in the short or long run. (MSS, paraphrased and expanded on)

Taking the Other Person's Point of View
Are you willing to take on this spiritual challenge? In the next few days, when you are in conversation or discussion or debate with another, switch your point of reference, and take the other person's point of view. Accept it completely in your mind. If you are able to do that, you have in essence had a spiritual experience. Taking the other person's view is to shift out of ego, and away from the exclusivity of mind which sees one part of the whole and takes it to be the entire whole. It is instead a movement toward unity and oneness of being; a movement toward integral perception and knowledge, as we recognize that there are other parts of the truth we are unconscious of, that express through others, no matter how much in the wrong they appear in our minds to be to be. You will be startled at the turn the conversation takes thereafter, and you may get a glimpse at the real power that we have within to change the course of life around us.

Another's View and Life Response
One way to arrive at this mind of tomorrow is on any and all occasions to strive to take the other man's point of view. It is another means of stepping into integral Truth consciousness. Each time we do so, life opens up. Sudden good fortune moves our way.

Taking Another's Point of View & Life Response
Taking another's point of view is to shift from ego to Other, which attracts the sudden arrival of fresh, new, unexpected results.

Effect of Taking Other's Point of View
One side swallowing his ego to take the other side's point of view in a conflicting conversation opens the floodgates of goodwill from each side; at least until the gathered positive energy at that level is spent.

Taking Opposite of Your Opinion
Opening to the opposite of your opinion suddenly opens from all quarters possibilities in areas you were earlier closed off from.

Taking Another's Point of View
Let us take a family where the atmosphere is quarrelsome. Let them teach themselves to look at the ISSUE from another man’s point of view. Suddenly all quarrels will vanish. When the spirit is awake it is capable of seeing the other man’s point of view easily. (MSS)

Assent vs. Dissent in Communications; Utilizing Sri Aurobindo's Thought
The question of another and our answer are in the plane either as assent or dissent (assent is not different from dissent). When we want to please him and be pleasant to him, his dissent changes into assent. Any thought of Sri Aurobindo taken into a context and allowed to express itself in the context has that quality. (MSS)

Reversal of Belief
When you accept the opposite of what you currently believe, then those whose views you opposed begin to believe the opposite of what they previously believed.

Taking Another's Point of View as Supramental Perception
Having the ultimate supramental truth consciousness is expressed by taking the other person's point of view. Imagine you have a notion that the other side contradicts in some manner. Now there appears to be division. Then instead of reinforcing your position, which you believe to be right, you shift your consciousness, and see their contribution to the truth of the whole of the topic under discussion. Recognizing the other's contribution to the Whole of the truth is to have supramental perception. We shift from mind, which sees its own slice of a truth, to the wider whole of the truth, which is expressed in part by the other person. This has the effect of moving you to the whole of the truth, being in Identity and Oneness with it, which is secretly what we are seeking.

A Supramental Perception
Siddhartha’s revelation [in Hermann Hesse's book Siddhartha] that in every truth the opposite is equally true is a supramental perception. (MSS)

Learn from a Discussion
Our goal should not be to win a debate, bit to learn from the discussion. Inner Silence, silent Will, and taking the other person's point of view are spiritual techniques that will certainly go a long way to achieving this goal.

Taking the Other Person's Point of View
-Taking the other person's point of view is to activate the Supramental element in the mind.
-Taking the other person's point of view is the all-comprehensive power of life that puts the other person utterly at your disposal.... One will find when he succeeds that he will be treated as a VIP of life giving him the feeling for a while that he could accomplish anything he attempts.
-To take the other man’s point of view is to take the view of life.
-Not to be selfish is to take the other man’s point of view.
-To take the other man’s point of view is to take the view of the Divine. (Paraphrase of MSS)

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When one takes the other man’s point of view, a supramental attitude, life responds positively in kind. (MSS, slightly altered)

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If we give in to other people's seemingly unimportant statements, blocking our own emerging thoughts, we find that their seemingly small remarks open the doors to vast new areas of discussion we had been only dimly aware of, or totally ignorant of. Obliviousness is then turned into fresh amazement.

Scale of Taking Another's Point of View
Taking the other's point of view is to acquire truth consciousness in that moment. Such an interaction can be understood along an ascending scale; from one's mannered tolerance, to the interest of an open character, to a oneness from a center within that knows no separation from their truth.

Consecration, Surrender Supports Taking the Other Person's View
An attitude of consecration or surrender, it can be seen, will directly help one acquire what arises in one's mind or what is spoken to one. It is an attitude of humility of the mind to the subject he is listening or the person he is listening to. When we can listen to someone with such an attitude of humility, what he speaks becomes TRUE inside us. In extreme cases, the theoretical possibility is one can learn to be a genius listening to an idiot as the idiot is the inverted genius. One's attitude of humility makes the idiot reverse his mind to the other side of the genius which is withheld. (MSS)

Taking The Other Man’s Point of View
-Taking the other man's point of view is to activate the Supramental element in the mind. Those who have tried it with bosses, customers, partners, friends and children have been amazed by the results.

-To be able to take the view of anyone we deal with in any matter as a rule is to take the view of life.

-It is a confined consecration, confined to one person. (MSS)

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The Westerner discovered that pleasing the customer increases business. Though selfish, it is another man’s point of view, a spiritual idea, as the Spirit considers the other man’s profit as one’s own welfare. (MSS)

Scale of Taking Another's Point of View
Taking the other's point of view is to acquire truth consciousness in that moment. Such an interaction can be understood along an ascending scale; from one's mannered tolerance, to the interest of an open character, to a oneness from a center within that knows no separation from their truth.

Consecration, Surrender Supports Taking the Other Person's View
An attitude of consecration or surrender, it can be seen, will directly help one acquire what arises in one's mind or what is spoken to one. It is an attitude of humility of the mind to the subject he is listening or the person he is listening to. When we can listen to someone with such an attitude of humility, what he speaks becomes TRUE inside us. In extreme cases, the theoretical possibility is one can learn to be a genius listening to an idiot as the idiot is the inverted genius. One's attitude of humility makes the idiot reverse his mind to the other side of the genius which is withheld. (MSS)

Methods of Bringing a Work Under One's Control:
Planning, Taking Another's Point of View, Rejoicing in the Growth of Others
Man initiates the events, but rarely are they under his control. Planning effectively largely brings the work - a chain of events - under our control. This subject will teach him that men will largely come under his control if he takes their point of view. One who rejoices in the growth of others - the success of those who are working with him - will never come under their control. (MSS)