Follow your own Voice

This jump-off line is from Start close in by David Whyte. 

Follow your own voice. It calls to you. Listen to it and follow it. But listen carefully. Make sure it’s your own. The mind is a tricky place. Things enter there and get scrambled. You might mistake something as your own, easily. So be careful. 

Follow your own voice. Follow your own pace. 

Follow your own voice. Make your own way. 

Follow your own voice. Sing your own tune. 

Follow your own voice. Make your own move. 

Follow your own voice. Wake up to the world of truth, that are carefully sifted and cultivated that you have arrived at. Keep sifting through the layers, keep trimming back what no longer apply, discard those splintered twigs. 

Follow your own voice. Be yourself. Reach out and grasp what is rightfully yours. 

Follow your own voice. Accept and explore all facets, then carefully sift and prune, then cultivate, shape it. Have a goal, work towards it slowly but steadily. Why? Because then you are more absorbed in the process. Go quickly, you might miss things. Go slow enough and you get to appreciate the smallness in things. Learn to celebrate the small victories. That’s what life is about. Not one big, whooping achievement but a string of small ones that add up.