Chelan Harkin: Listening To and Honoring the Voice of Our Truth

Such a wise, heartfelt, and soulful message. And such a deep, wise, beautiful book. As are all of Chelan Harkin’s books. I’m so very grateful for each one, which are deeply needed in these times. And all times. Chelan’s books, and now including Wild Grace, are also what I’ve been gifting to family and friends for some time. Deepest bow of gratitude, respect, affection, and love. 🙏💜 Molly

Chelan Harkin's latest book, Wild Grace

Listening To and Honoring the

Voice of Our Truth

To recognize the need to honor ourself is terrifying. To recognize this is for our listening to grow in sensitivity to our inner truth. The voice of our truth strengthens as we resolve the pain from our past that muffles it. And it is terrifying because once we hear it, we must begin to work toward responding to it. Because once we hear it, the dissonance that grows in us as we don’t respond to it and align our lives with it becomes unbearable. But when we respond to it, everything in our life that has not been based on that self-honoring, that has required neglecting our truth, that has not reflected our path to wholeness is invited to change with us for we become unable to stay with it as it was. And if it does not grow with us, it falls away. This is the crucible of choosing authentic belonging over familiar fragments—we do not know what will grow and what will fall away and still we must grow.

This is why so many are disconnected from what they truly want, from what is true within them—not because inner guidance, clarity and truth is not within them and available to them as clearly as it is within anybody, but because they’d have to dramatically change to accommodate it. Because of this, many lives are made up of maintaining pain which actively blurs and buries the clear voice of truth. And the blade of our knowing, that if brought forth would slice illusion, remains sheathed. And our luminous beholding of reality’s face remains veiled.

— Chelan Harkin

https://chelanharkin.com/selected-poems/