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 Children at play...those sounds echoing from your
yesterday. Happy sound, sad sound, we are in some way
forever, to our past, our childhood, bound. However,
life offers to us each day many opportunities to partake
in all of the sound that currently resonates in our
here and now. How? Do you wonder how?

 You begin by hearing the haunting sound of yesterday.
Feel it, deal with it, face it. Then you gently detach, 
and focus on a new chosen direction by listening to the 
sound of your life in a new and more accepting way.

 Sound resonates from the very ground that is your 
essence. Sound is the harbinger of so much of what
you will feel... hence. What do you hear in that sound?
To which sound are you allowing yourself to be bound?
Are you listening in sadness and grief to the sounds
of the past or are you beginning to choose the full
rainbow of sounds that are your present, at last?

 Sounds can beckon us back. Sounds can take us forward.
Sounds can be the backdrop of our dreams and goals and
aspirations. Sounds surround our desires. Music is the
most common sound of all that has so much potential
to lead our heart through journey after journey.

 Hear the call to the sound that your life is. Answer
the call to that sound by listening. Let the music of
your soul have free range. It is the depth and the wealth of 
the aspects of what it means to be who you are that you will
find and better understand through this mindful melody: this
newly-found familiar sound cannot be foreign or strange.
This sound with wings will carry, from the inside out, all
you need and want to change.

 A child's laughter, or a child's cries carry within
them a common sound that each of us must trace
back until we are more assuredly found. Own the sounds of your
past and they will carry you to the essence of who you are
now....as you journey on through the stepping out of the shadows 
that your days gone by have continued to cast.....

 Bound to sound. Sound does abound. Bound to so much sound: 
a deeper perception and hearing of which can so freely astound....

 Cast yourself upon the mercy of all that you hear. Sound
in and of itself to your continued growth, like the music
of your mindful soul, is near, and dear and has lived with
you year after year.

 What do you hear in that echoing sound?

 A.J. Mahari
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Thought of The Day for Wednesday, February 17, 1999
Thought Of The Day email edition. Copyright (C) 1999
Ms. A.J. Mahari (soul) All rights reserved.
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