Key points

There are so many voices out there loudly telling us what to think, what to believe, and what to do.

Learning to connect to our internal authority is essential to our ability to self-guide.

Taking the risk to listen to and be guided by that internal authority might be how we come to know.

The voices of external authorities are loud and sometimes clear but sometimes muddled. Yet even when they are muddled, we seem to think that “they” must know what “they” are talking about, because “they” say it with such authority. When the voices are clear, we simply must do what “they” say; we must feel guilty for not doing it or only partially doing it; or we must overtly or covertly choose not to obey. Whatever we do with those voices, they ring in our ears often, too often deafeningly

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