Source http://zenhabits.net/listening-to-purpose/
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.” ~Rumi
By Leo Babauta
Very often, our lives are so filled with busyness and distraction that we have no space to actually listen to what life is calling us to do.
Think about your day so far, and your day yesterday: how much of it was spent in busywork and distraction? Messaging, social media, videos and news, reading favorite websites, answering emails and doing errands, replying and reacting.
In the middle of this craziness, do we ever have space for silence? For creation, contemplation, reflection? And for a practice that I think we do too little of much of the time: listening.
The practice of listening is about creating a little space for silence, and then listening to what you need to do right now:
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