Can You Hear It?

Listening for the genuine in yourself.

Photo by Boris Sopko

Although we all need teaching and instruction, the best insights, the ones that go deep right away come in those aha moments. When something comes to us in a sudden insight or discovery.

Today I’m sharing something from “The Sound of the Genuine” by Howard Thurman.

Reflect on it, giving yourself time to ponder the many meanings here. Remain open throughout and if you do, many will receive an aha that will spark and encourage you on your Ikigai Journey.

“There is something in every one of you that waits, listens for the genuine in yourself—and if you can not hear it, you will never find whatever it is for which you are searching and if you hear it and then do not follow it, it was better that you had never been born.

You are the only you that has ever lived; your idiom is the only idiom of its kind in all the existences, and if you cannot hear the sound of the genuine in you, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.”

Are you listening?

Can you hear it?

Will you follow?