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Respect Your Instincts 
It is easy not to listen to what the Quakers call the “still, small voice within,” that inner guide that is your 
personal source of wisdom. It is often difficult to march to your own drum beat and listen to your instincts when 
the world around you pressures you to conform to its dictates. Yet, to find the fulfillment and abundance you 
seek, you must listen to those hunches and feelings that come to you when you most need them. 
 
As I grow older, I give far greater respect to my instincts and to the natural reservoir of intuition that 
slumbers within each one of us. The impressions I receive when I first meet a new person or that inner sense of 
wisdom that softly nudges me in the right direction during a trying time have come to play a larger part in the 
way I work and live. It seems that with age comes the corresponding ability to trust your own instincts. 
 
I have also found that my personal instincts grow stronger when I am living “on purpose,” that is to say, 
spending my days on activities that advance me along the path to my legacy. When you are doing the right 
things and living the way nature intended you to live, abilities you were not aware you had become engaged and 
you liberate the fullness of the person you really are. As the Indian philosopher Patanjali eloquently wrote: 
When you are inspired by some great purpose, some  
extraordinary project, all of your thoughts break 
their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your 
consciousness expands in every direction, and you  
find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. 
Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, 
and you discover yourself to be a greater person by 
far than you ever dreamed yourself to be. 
 
 
 
 
 

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