It’s never about what others appear to say, it’s only about your ability to listen.
It doesn’t matter what people appear to say.
When you listen to anyone deep enough, you can’t help but to hear the voice of God.
When you listen deep enough, the voice of God becomes the only thing that you hear.
And if you listen in the right way, everyone becomes a prophet.
It’s never about what others appear to say, it’s only about your ability to listen.
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I have been feeling so much these days.
And every single day, I can feel myself changing.
I have been through so many deaths and rebirths over the course of my life, and my sense of self has been obliterated and reconstructed time and time again.
There has always been a core essential self that has more or less remained constant in me. But my outer identity has been through so many changes, and honestly, it is very hard to keep up with.
And sometimes, I am just tired.
Exhausted.
Like I just want to collapse into a deep pool of elemental rest. Like dissolving into the ancient tranquility of an old growth forest, my essence blended like watercolors with the gentle rustlings of leaves against a sky filled with an endless blue.
Human association, gone.
And I fall like the sun at the end of our days.
Colors drip from the sky and melt into my vision, like a burning candle melts into its holder. Except what is my vision attempting to hold, but the melting away of time, and who I continuously think myself to be.
Sometimes I wonder if I think thoughts just to keep myself alive.
To prove to myself and others that I actually exist.
And sometimes I just want to let go, and allow myself to merge with the sky and inhabit the primordial languages of the sun, moon, and stars.
But I am here.
And I am changing into only God knows what.
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Over the past few years, my days have been spent working very intimately with people, doing my very best to be with them, and to listen as deeply as I possibly can.
My professional title would technically be that of an “intuitive reader”, but I often feel like it would be much more appropriate to call me a “professional listener”.
I do my best to listen to others as intently as I would as if I heard the voice of God booming from beyond the clouds, accompanied by angels with trumpets heralding prophecy and Divine law.
So, I spend most of my days listening to others as intently and intensely as I possibly can, until my ears and my eyes become transfixed through falling upon the depth of another’s essence, and the other becomes a gateway within my perception, through which I may hear the voice of something greater than what the two of us could possibly contain on our own.
And if I’m honest, I doubt myself all the time. And I am so fallibly human. But I show up and do my very best, and I place my full faith in the knowing that God will make good use of every ounce of my willingness.
And in this depth of listening, what is often perceived clashes with every personal judgement and preference of my own, and is far beyond any belief that I could ever hold about myself or another. And in fact, what is perceived stretches beyond the very texture of perception itself.
Because the miraculous is always beyond belief.
It is far beyond the container of what my limited mind is capable of grasping, so I just try to keep things simple, accept the fact that I don’t really know much at all, and just focus all of my attention on listening.
I focus all of my attention on listening.
Because if you listen to anyone or anything deep enough, you will inevitably hear the voice of God.
Even in the face of what you would perceive to be the most horrid, ugly, darkened and grotesque villains and monsters — you will hear the voice of God if you listen in the right way.
Remember, it’s never about what anyone else says or does. And it doesn’t matter how atrocious and evil it may appear to be.
It’s only about your ability to listen.
That’s it.
Because the depth and the quality of your listening informs not only how you respond, but what you choose to draw forth from within yourself.
So, allow the depth of your listening to become a chisel that sculpts you into the masterpiece that you were always created to be. And allow the depth of your listening to become an echo chamber, to reflect back to others the voice of God that speaks through them.
I’ve discovered for myself, that the greatest service that I could ever offer to anyone, is to simply listen.
But to listen in such a way where you make contact with the very depth of another’s essence, and your very listening becomes a magnet that helps to draw the uniqueness of their essence forth from within them. Your listening becomes a space through which they come out of hiding.
And in the deep unconditionality of your listening, the frozen shame within another is freed by the warmth of love, which is the soil from which this type of listening blooms. And your listening becomes an invitation for you both to make contact with the Reality of this Great Love that is boundless, and frees all things.
As you listen, notice the inner worlds that reveal themselves to you, rising up out of your attunement with another.
Do you notice any colors, shapes or patterns filling your inner vision, like an ancient abstract language that has been painted like hieroglyphs across the screen of your awareness?
Or, maybe you notice fountains of intuitive knowing pouring into the top of your head, through your crown, as it gets filtered through your prefrontal cortex to get organized into defined and linear thought.
Or, maybe you feel surges of electricity up and down your spine as every cell in your body comes alive with knowing. And you notice chills rising up from your arms, and feelings of expansion swelling and radiating from your heart.
Or maybe you hear a cacophony of voices reverberating within you, as words, phrases and transcriptions of messages repeat and fill the corridors of your conscious thought.
And maybe all of these inner experiences are happening all at a once, put together like an orchestra, as you learn how to listen from the very depth of what you are. As you learn how to listen from every layer of your being. And as you learn how to listen from the intelligent space that rests between you and everything — the space which reveals that there is actually no space at all.
This listening becomes living proof that there is no actual distance between you and another, because your hearts and minds are One.
This type of listening transcends all of our conditioning, and it becomes a language all of its own. A language that opens up a channel of communication to what is most Real in us.
I’ve learned that sometimes the highest truths, are the most simple.
Listen.
Listen.
Listen.
