LII (52) Shh Trees

People won’t find us if we don’t tell people who we are. We want our work to speak for ourselves, but how does our work speak if nobody knows our work exists? If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, does it make a sound? It’s a silly question on the surface, but it gets at existential questions: are we the observer or the observed and who is telling the narrative? In “The Untethered Soul,” Michael A. Singer talks about how a lot of us have a voice or voices in our heads and how we think that that is our true self, but that actually our deepest self is the one who hears the voice. If we don’t like the voice or the story we are hearing, we actually have it in us to change the narrative and tell new stories that serve us and how we want to show up in the world.