Inner listening

Rabbi Ward-Lev says that the living presence of God is still calling to us today: "The Living Presence also speaks within our lives, wordlessly calling us out into life, encouraging us to grow beyond our current limitations, to cross boundaries, to take the next step in our lives. Listening well to our inner lives is an important practice along the liberation journey.
Having achieved some degree of detachment, we should then listen for a deeper voice that isn’t our own. We will know that it isn’t the ego because it will never shame or frighten us, but rather strengthen us, even when it is challenging us.
If any thought feels too harsh, shaming, or diminishing of ourselves or others, it is not likely the voice of God, it is simply the egoic voice. But if something comes toward us with grace and can pass through us and toward others with grace, we can trust it as the voice of God.
“We must listen to what is supporting us. We must listen to what is encouraging us. We must listen to what is urging us. We must listen to what is alive in us.”