Our inner voice

"There are two ways to be fooled.  One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true." Soren Kiekegaard.

We each have an inner voice of wisdom, which will never lead us astray.  It has always been hard to tune into that voice, but perhaps never harder than in our culture with all of its myriad of distractions.  Buddha sat under a tree, Thoreau went to his pond, Joseph Campbell lived in a cabin for five years.  Models of great wisdom teachers show us that it is important to go into ourselves to find and follow our inner voice. 

Perhaps this time of living with dementia is a "going to the cabin" time for us; perhaps we can choose to make it so.  Can we eliminate distractions, can we listen to our own souls, can we choose this time to listen to our inner voice and become faithful to that voice?   It will not lead us astray.  And, it can be the guide through this life with dementia and beyond.