This comment at Ron Unger's blog made me think of a quote by the Swedish politician and mystic Dag Hammarskjöld:
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. And only she who listens can speak.
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1 week ago
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That's an interesting discussion.
As far as voices go, and I get them in various ways, which since I started getting them I started writing, so I have a safety valve for them... but the main point: it's not the hearing them that is the problem - it's the obeying them. I learn from them. And shake like a dog when I've had enough of hearing them. "Back in your boxes, boys!"
Take care, Dx
Sorry to say that it isn't "the voices" but "the voice" he speaks about.
I understand it as the voice, from deep inside your originally self, the true "you", - for me also my line from my soul to "God", which I prefer to call "All"; that's how it becomes the ability to listen to everybody else, - to the "world"..
Sorry for all " (Goose-eyes?), but I need to use words I'm not use to use when I speak about this issue.
D: "...it's not the hearing them that is the problem - it's the obeying them." Yes. Like everything else in life, it's failing to really accept what is - which would put you in control of whatever is. Or more like in control of its effect on you.
I can't help it, but when I read Sarah's comment at Ron's blog it seems to me, that she failed to genuinely accept her voices, that she failed to acknowledge the - symbolic - truth in what they told her. And, yes, then there is nothing to be "proud" of. Then there is only an enemy: you.
Pia: Yes. But I don't think, it's a contradiction. :)
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