Listening

In my devotions today I was reading Psalm 46 and came to that great line, "Be still, and know that I am God." I wonder how you get "still?" Is stillness the absence of noise? As I have been praying about our future, I find myself working to be still. I seem to hear God saying, "Being still and listening are not always the same thing." How are you doing at listening? What are you hearing?