It’s the deepest voice inside of us. The one that calls out in whispers if we’re so inclined to attune ourselves to hear it.
Every day, it asks us to pay attention. To seek what is going on within ourselves and pushes us to be the truest version of who we were meant to be.
The first time we hear its faint beckoning becomes a life shattering moment.
Our initial response is fear. We know what it’s asking, but we cannot fathom actually following through on its request.
We demand more information.
More clarity.
We ask it to speak a bit louder and be a bit clearer, but when it doesn’t, we take the most logical next step and ignore it.
But the message has already infiltrated your mind, rooted itself and spread through your system so it cannot be forgotten. Since ignoring it becomes difficult, running from it becomes preferable.
We deafen ourselves to the call, run the opposite way and hope to find something better. Even if a new path is forged, filled with great things, there will always be the nagging pull of unfulfillment.
Until you are able to reconnect again with that call… that voice… that tiny whisper… you will never know what you were truly made to be. There will never be satisfaction.
However, once the acceptance comes into place and you are ready to listen, the challenge truly begins.
When you connect to who you are, working towards who you were called to be, a new force enters to stop you. Religious language calls this the devil (or demons), Steven Pressfield calls this ‘The Resistance,’ Kabbalists refer to it as Yetzer hara and many cultures and religions have other terms, but they’re all meant to describe one idea:
Being fully and truly who you are and what you are called to be is the most difficult, lifelong task a person can commit to because it will change the world.
The world doesn’t need another Howard Roark or John Galt treading on already worn down paths.
It needs great people. And great people only come when they are willing to choose the difficult path of connecting to who they were meant to be.
It needs soul… and it needs it here… and now.
Because we are capable of doing more than just holding onto them for a lifetime.