Often, we want to do something, have a strong feeling, and yet stop ourselves, only to look back and feel that maybe we should have. If we look back, we may well discover that over time, we had a string of moments when the inner call was loud enough, but we didn’t listen to our heart.
Sometimes, we want to do something we can see in our mind’s eye, but almost everyone around us thinks differently. Our conviction often gets shaken when we are the only one wanting to go in a direction but cannot convince others at first. It is at those times when the world says no, but deep down, we just know it is the right thing for us to do, we must listen to our hearts.
The external voices, norms, and expectations often make us sub-consciously fit into a mould without realising it. Some influences are good for us, but we become the person we truly want to be and live our lives the way we really want to when we listen to our heart.
There are times when we know people around us need help, and yet, are not reaching out. To be a support in someone’s life doesn’t need us to be asked. When we know we can be the reason behind someone’s smile, we need to stop over-thinking and listen to our heart.
When we love someone deeply, they must feel it from us. Love unmanifest is a life wasted. The expanse and purity of our expanse that we feel for someone shouldn’t get suffocated because we are too busy and take it for granted that they know. When love is finding an expression from us, we must listen to our heart.
The heart speaks when the mind is silent. Our fears, regrets, attachments, and anxieties often drown our own inner voice. When we find ourselves at a crossroad and looking for direction, we must listen to our heart.
Our success is not in what we have achieved, but in the way we have lived our life true to our own calling. When we find that despite having less we find more pleasure in what we are doing, when we walk the path less travelled not out of ego but a sense of purpose, when we feel the love and inner freedom that we are living our life not the way others expect us to, but by our own convictions, when connecting with people has greater meaning than collecting things, when people know the love we carry for them, when someone smiles because of us, and when we smile even we are all alone in doing something, it is then that we know we have listened to our heart.
(Picture – St.Andrews, Scotland)
This is so true! Feelings of being isolated in thought on a project has often stopped me. Now, I do not let that happen.