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A meditation on silence and what listening means to me

Mostly, we want to tell our stories and leave our mark on the world. In a world that is constantly shifting, and changing, and even threatening to leave you behind, there is always this urgency to find ourselves. Maybe it’s because our own self is the only one thing that will remain constant in our life as things and people come and go. But I have never really had a good grasp of myself. I often worried about taking up space and speaking over others. I always worried about my thoughts being not good enough, not being special enough to be heard. There are plenty of events and circumstances…

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