Listen to Your Deepest Self

One of the most important ways to be happy is to be quiet, sit still, and listen to your deepest self, your soul. Take a minute, a mere minute each day, and listen to your deepest centre. Listen to what your soul may tell you. The soul speaks what we most need to hear, if we listen.

            At the core of your being, there is silence. “The still centre of the turning world”, poet T.S.Eliot called it. We send space shuttles into outer space to drift among the stars. We throw out highly sophisticated telescopes, sinning through space to focus even farther into unknown, and send images back to earth for scientist to marvel and puzzle over.Oh, amazing! But the universe has another centre one much closer to home.

            The universe has a centre in each one of us, and you can listen to it, and when you do you will cultivate as much happiness in your life as you can expect in this life. When you listen to your soul you listen to your own union with the Divine Mystery at the heart of the universe. Oh, amazing! Oh, smack your forehead with an open hand and sit down, whump, it is so astonishing.

            Listen to your own soul, to your own amazing union with the Divine Mystery at the heart of the universe, and know that this same Mystery dwells at the deepest centre of every human being on the earth. Even you. Know this and smack your forehead with an open hand in amazement. Whoa! Think about it long enough ponder the fact at length, and you may have a tough time while you are not falling down to worship the next person you see. It’s possible. It is.

            Sit still. Close your eyes. Don’t think about anything. Get a blank mind, and then focus on your own deepest self. Listen. The still center of the turning world. The Divine Mystery at the heart of the universe lives in you. Listen. Here is your beginning, and here is your end. Here is your path all along the way. Believe it, and be happy.

            “The unexamined life is not worth living.” It was true centuries ago when Socrates first said it, and it is true today. It always will be true. Those who live with awareness don’t go through life sleepwalking, spiritually speaking, and they are the happy people. They try to live thoughtfully, honestly, and with purpose. It is not difficult, although many people make it so. All you need do is listen to your own soul and you will learn the truth. Listen.

This is the foundation, the essential basis for a happy life. Listen to the Divine Mystery in your soul and you shall be happy.