October 12
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Today's
quotation:
How
do the geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them
the seasons? How do we, humans, know when it is time to
move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us,
there is
a voice within, if only we would listen to it,
that tells us
so certainly when to go forth into the
unknown.
Elisabeth Kuebler-Ross
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Today's
Meditation:
That
voice within. That beautiful, magical presence
inside us that lets us know almost everything that we need
to know-- that can help us to make the right decisions
every time, that can help us to make the right choices and
say the right things and avoid saying and doing the wrong
things. That wonderful voice that we ignore so often
in our efforts to run our lives in the ways that we think
they should be run.
"If
only we would listen to it." One of the
greatest gifts that we have as human beings, and we tend
to ignore it! How could that be so? In his
story "To Build a Fire," Jack London tells us of
a man who uses reason to try to survive in temperatures of
75 degrees below zero. He's accompanied by a dog
whose instinct tells him he shouldn't be out there.
The man who depends on reason dies, while the dog who
trusts his instinct survives. It's a beautiful
lesson on the limits of reason and the powers of instinct,
and it's a lesson that I try to pay attention to in my
day-to-day life.
Many
people pray, but few people listen for responses to their
prayers. Many people talk with friends, but not
everyone listens when their friends talk. Listening
is a skill that must be practiced if we're going to get
good at it, and listening to that voice that comes from
inside us is a skill that few people value enough even to
think of practicing. But what benefits it can bring us
if we pay attention to it!
The
voice tells us when it's time to venture forth and which
directions to take. If I heed and trust the voice,
I'm taking advantage of a beautiful gift. If I
ignore it and don't trust it, then I'm squandering a great
gift. And what good does that do me or anyone else
in my life?
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Questions to
consider:
What has your inner voice told you lately?
Why should we heed that voice?
What kinds of things make it hard to hear that voice? |
For further
thought:
Trust the instinct
to the end, though you can render no reason.
Ralph
Waldo Emerson
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