Finding Your Inner Voice

The way the world works is very interesting. As I stated in a previous blog, the basic concept is As above, So below.  We are an echo of the Cosmic Mind or Universal Spirit.  What I find extremely fascinating is the manner in which we reflect our higher consciousness. Specifically, the manner that we find or make that connection to our higher selves. It seems to me that on the surface that contact is veiled through contradictory logic or actions.  For example, the Hindus teach us that real thinking occurs once we completely quiet the mind. Buddhists teach a similar concept.   Nirvana, one of the highest attainable states, is reached when one has stilled the mind so that a direct connection is made to the source.    The goal of prayer and meditation is to stop thinking. Once we quiet, what Carlos Casteneda’s famous character Don Juan terms, our inner dialogue, we connect with the source of all there is.

Christians engage in rhythmic prayer such as the rosary to quiet the mind and connect with God.  By focusing on a repeated set of prayers, they forget to think about the mundane details of their life and they focus upon the ethereal, upon God. They use these prayers to clear their mind.  Once again the mystery of contact is veiled through apparent contradictory action. We focus upon something so that our mind can focus upon nothing. Once our mind is cleared, we are given an opportunity to hear our inner voice.  The voice Christians call God.  The voice some call Jesus, or Krishna or Rama and many others refer to as the Universal Spirit.

Many modern spiritualists teach that the path to freedom manifests through a focus only upon the present moment. Thich Nhat Hanh’s books such as “Peace is Every Breath,” are wonderful examples of this concept. Ekhart Tolle also elaborates upon this concept quite well in his works.  Paulo Coehlo, in his famous book, “The Alchemist,” manifests how amazing things can occur when one focuses only upon the moment and does not cloud the mind with extraneous details.

I challenge you to take a brief moment today – no more than five minutes. Find a way to stop your mind from the million and one thoughts that are constantly running through it.  Either meditate, chant a mantra, say a rosary or repeat your favorite prayer.  If you truly focus, you will find that your inner voice will emerge.  You will know when it is your inner voice. It will be pure and sweet. Don’t worry, it won’t be the jagged voices   heard by paranoid schizophrenics, it will be the constant sweet voice of God. Most likely it won’t be a conversation but more of a feeling. It is a feeling you have known before and when it resonates within you, and it will resonate within your heart, it will feel like a long lost friend.     You will recognize it and you will accept it and you will enjoy your brief contact with the real you that is an integral part of this marvelous and wondrous universe.  We are all one with God and when we still our minds and feel that connection the feeling is pure ineffable joy!!!