Above All the Noise
Cultivating the discipline of listening.
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Sometimes we don’t hear because we aren’t listening and other times because the noise in our lives drowns out that sound of the genuine us.
Yesterday I shared something from Howard Thurman1 challenging us to listen for the sound of our genuine selves.
Here is another passage to reflect on regarding the noise in our lives.
Give yourself time to ponder the additional meaning here. Go back to yesterday’s reflection if necessary.
Remain open throughout and if you do, many of you will receive an aha that will provide a spark and encouragement on your Ikigai Journey.
“Don’t be deceived and thrown off by all the noises that are a part even of your dreams [and] your ambitions that you don’t hear the sound of the genuine in you.
Because that is the only true guide that you will ever have and if you don’t have that you don’t have a thing. You may be famous.
You may be whatever the other ideals are which are a part of this generation, but you know you don’t have the foggiest notion of who you are, where you are going, what you want.
Cultivate the discipline of listening to the sound of the genuine in yourself.”
Are you cultivating the discipline of listening?
Can you hear the sound over the noise in the world?
Do you hear the sound of the genuine in you?
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