Giving Voice to Vision
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune. Carl Jung
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. Carl Jung
Early morning the theme comes. Two words. Voice. Vision. Then, direction: giving voice to vision.
I sense the guidance isn’t meant for today’s Pivot alone, but rather a pivot that’s been in motion in me for a while is coming to a new point of clarity and direction. Greater clarity around a question that’s been with me for a while as we forge paths beyond the current chaos and dissolution toward the ‘next’ that wants to emerge as we nourish seeds planted long ago and plant new seeds. What is mine to do?
Several days back as I sat looking into the woods out back as the sun peeked over the peaks of the Sangres, this stream found its way to the page:
In the quiet stillness
of doing nothing
is everything.
In the quiet stillness
of doing no thing
I can BE Every Thing
that I Am.
I Am That.
It is by no means everyone’s voice to be predominately quiet and still, yet it is in that quiet stillness that we hear the small, still voice of the heart, a heart that knows what voice is ours to speak. When. Where. How. To and for whom.
We need the chorus of voices rising up to say ‘No!’ to that which destroys Life and stands in the way of our personal sovereignty. We need voices of calm serenity to nurture emergent visions and infinite possibilities that sprout from right relationships. To one another. To all Life. To the aliveness of our planet home. We need to align our daily choices with the world we want to experience.
We need vision questors, vision keepers, vision holders, vision speakers to dream and nurture potent possibilities of aligning with Life, just as we need builders to bring those visions to life. We need not vision, speak, and build in the old ways of doing more of the same. Rather we need to ask, ‘What else is possible if I see this differently?’ and then listen with our hearts. We need to move beyond the doom and gloom of analytical problem solving, to the joy of creative minds and hearts that see beyond the cruelty and suffering of the moment to harmony with Life rising like a phoenix from the ashes of destruction and despair. We need to ask, ‘Who shall we BE?’ And align our choices with that.
All too often we forget just how powerful we are. We need to remember and recognize that we are the voices, the visionaries, and the builders of our world and our experiences in the choices we make each day. In every choice we make we are giving voice to a vision.
In our choices of what food we purchase and consume, we give voice to either health and vitality or todisease, not only of our bodies, but of the body of earth and her health. In what we choose to speak (and, yes, post on social media), we are giving voice to visions of a loving world or one of fear, to visions of cooperation and community or to division and competition.
Are you in tune with the small, still voice of your heart, dreaming and awakening to the power of your choices? What and whose visions are your choices giving voice to?
Cindy, a longtime student of metaphysics and seeker desiring to understand the cosmos, reflects on life and writes as she stewards a small property at 8000 feet in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of Southern Colorado. She aims to align her life choices with Nature and the laws of the Universe. In the midst of the changing environment of a chaotic world, each week Cindy explores navigating these uncharted waters and how to live a life aligned with our highest values in her blog at www.cindyreinhardt.com/blog
