If we think about the people that have changed the course of history it's very safe to say that they listened to their hearts.  Additionally they listened to their souls and their higher selves.  The important thing to emphasize is that they listened inwardly.  In a moment of quiet contemplation (or several, more accurately) the leaders or pioneers of any given field, decided a change needed to be made.  An invention had to be created,  a peace had to be attained and possibly an injustice needed to be righted.

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You are never going to hear me say that.  

That statement is the very pinnacle of ego.  I don't know one thing about the world.  I know how I want to exist within it, but I don't have the answers for anyone but myself.

Yet we all carry around judgments and beliefs that work for us and consciously or subconsciously project them out.  

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I teach meditation and help people become calmer, but do you want to know something? I learn the most when I realize that I am not only the teacher but the student.

One of the greatest gifts of mindfulness is the ability to be so in tuned to the moment that messages come to you most effortlessly.

Let me give you a great example.  Yesterday was a very busy day.  I had podcasts to get out, interviews to be conducted and a speech for toastmasters that I hadn't even started.

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