It requires emptiness, stillness and silence to find our way to our intuition. Emptiness is achieved by disengaging ourselves from everything we meet in the stillness and silence. When we sit quietly, we immediately begin to generate internal noise that we escape only by drinking whiskey straight from the bottle. All of the escapes, diversions, distractions that we generate for ourselves are attempts to get away from what we hear, remember, fear, dread, agonize over when we are quiet. Disengagement is essential. We get there by emptying ourselves of everything and refusing to go where usually wind up with nothing to take our mind off the ghosts that haunt us in the silence. We just shut the door. And turn our full attention to “the still small voice” of our intuition–“The Other within,” which we engage by seeking help in shutting out the internal noise by seeking, “What would you have me be aware of here, now?” And focusing in the silence for the awareness stirring on the edges of emptiness, intent on seeing where it takes us with guidance and direction to matters that need our attention and assistance with the gifts that are ours to serve and share in the field of action at the present moment in our life.
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