Speak Your Peace (from Cultivating Inner Peace) - a podcast by podcasts@pariyatti.org

Chapter 10 - Speak Your Peace
fromCultivating Inner Peaceby Paul R. Fleischman, M.D.

"If I could do one thing for my society today, it would be to create community in which everyone was encouraged
to speak from the heart, and to listen to the messages ofothers. I have spent most of my life listening to varieties of
justified complaints that no one listens to or understands.Unfortunately, we live in a non-listening, mass-market,
person-inattentive society. The emphasis on efficiency, productivity,pleasure, and hurry that pervade society leave little
room for building personal relationships around resonantcommunication of feelings. We live in a society uniquely
devoid of conversation about the backdrop of infinite reality,through which every shaft of light that falls on us has passed.
We see the tint of this passage everywhere, but we suffer fromderealization when we try to speak about its presence in our
lives. Yet this cultural repression is changeable, every timewe ourselves dare to refer in our talk to the reality always
present around us."

Dr. Paul Fleischman
Massachusetts, USA
2020
22 minutes

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