Our ability to be silent, and listen is one of the most precious gifts we can give to ourselves. Our own unknown reveals itself, blossoms in the “light” of our listening in response to our attention as it feels heard.
At that point we experience ourselves as relational and feel this connectedness as love. This communion, this life-long conversation between your known and unknown shows up as your voice, distinct and grounded in deep and emergent truth. Then we feel this integration as our home.
We begin to discover this sense of home extends to and is mirrored by our exterior world. We are becoming expansive and LIFE responds in kind.
This is how we learn to recognize we are not seperate but belong to the whole of life. This experience helps us to learn to feel guided by life itself,
By listening and learning to feel more deeply, we slowly develop patience with our feeling of natural vulnerability at the advent of new experience, ever-present in all learning throughout our lives.
When we are lost, we have a home to return to, to be with. We learn that being lost is part of learning and discovery, so we learn how to best use the tools we are born with, like the ability to choose wisely where to put our attention. We learn to use our imagination by wondering, being curious when we approach an unknown.
We expand our use of inquiry because not knowing and knowing are partners in life-each useful at the right time. We learn to call on memory when needed in order to recall aspects and abilities we can use that we may have forgotten.
When we have learned to inhabit our own peaceful silent self, we discover that our thinking brain/our knowns begin to relax in the comfort of the relational self and we are likely to experience more compassion for ourselves, and so empathy for others.
And this. Just this being human is enough.
your voice : from the inside out 