“Who are you & can you find a way to hear the sound of the genuine in yourself? There are so many noises going on inside you, so many echoes of all sorts, so much internalising of the rumble & the traffic, the confusions, the disorders by which your environment is peopled that I wonder if you can get still enough – not quite enough – still enough to hear rumbling up from your unique & essential idiom, the sound of the genuine in you. I don’t know if you can. But this is your assignment.”
“….I hear the sound of the genuine in myself &, having learned to listen to that, I can become quiet enough, still enough, to hear the sound of the genuine in you.” -Howard Thurman