How to Hear Yourself After a Lifetime of Following Other People's Voices

Main subjects

AVAlexander VolchekConnection with yourselfAwareness, observation, and perceptionF/Friend / friendsIdentity, masks, and other people's expectationsAnxiety, stress, and inner calm

What is said here

• 00:00We live in a world of enormous social opportunities. People have access to an incredible amount of everything. The reason for this search is mistaken.
• 01:19The main thing about this question—hearing yourself, doing what you need for yourself, beginning to fulfill your own dreams…Connection with yourself · Time
• 04:43“Really?” “A hundred and fifty books in total, yes.” “In English?” “A hundred and fifty—I think they have languages other than English too, but those are distinct titles, in four libraries…”Rudolf Steiner · Responsibility
• 06:37I think the question is not what else is there, but what is missing. The person asking the question is missing.
• 08:38“A simple example: you are afraid, and I am not. I do not feel that fear.” “I know it is completely irrational.” “Yes, completely.” “It has nothing to do with planes, actually.”Fear · Time
• 11:04It is incredible. Sometimes I get comments from people saying, for example, “I live in Odesa, and I am grateful for the love you convey through your meditations.”Death · The soul
• 14:22I wanted to work through it, because I am very open as a learner. I wanted to process it, but I caught myself not perceiving it that way.Friend / friends · Partner
• 15:32And you were like, “Oh, wow!” I do not know anyone who understood exactly what you meant about my garden today. Here is an interesting aspect.Friend / friends · Garden / plants · Mom / mother
• 19:56The person who asks, “How do I start perceiving myself instead of listening to others?”—the most important thing is that they are not hearing others either.Garden / plants
• 26:29“Let our imaginations run wild?” “Even if we had let our imaginations run wild, we still could not have pictured it. We would not have seen the full picture.” “No chance at all.” “No chance.”California

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• 02:44

  It is just that we now live in a world of enormous social opportunities. People have access to an incredible amount of everything.

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• 05:34

  So with a highly developed system that makes all of this accessible, many people are constantly searching for something. But look: the reason for that search is mistaken.

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• 11:04

  Sometimes I get comments from people saying, for example, “I live in Odesa, and I am grateful for the love you convey through your meditations.”

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• 12:40

  There is a very important aspect to examine: being onstage is similar to saying, “Other people influence me.” When someone says, “Other people influence me; I listen to them; I do not make my own decisions,” the most important thing…

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• 18:22

  Of course I was living in the truth, because I did not judge that person or anyone else. I do not judge people.

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• 21:13

  When we look at the garden, instead of trying to prove that it is beautiful or ugly, try to understand why another person finds it beautiful, or why they wanted to create it.

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• 21:29

  Try to recognize that. Or ask why I find this balcony beautiful while someone else finds it ugly.

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• 22:24

  A couple of days ago I was walking in town—actually, sitting in town, conducting a consultation.

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• 24:11

  I will sit with this and think about why the person suggested it to me.

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• 25:05

  So the only thing you can do in opening yourself up and coming to know yourself, the one thing, is to understand that things can unfold in any way at all.

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