Three Voices In Me

There are three voices operating inside you at all times. Which one you listen to determines the quality of your life. Understanding these voices — and choosing between them — is at the heart of spiritual growth.

The Three Voices

There are three voices in me. I’m trying to recognize the idea and connect to the voice of my own individuality — because two of the voices that exist inside my head are in constant competition.

The first voice is the voice of persecution, judgment, guilt, and shame. It’s built from our experiences, from the life we’ve lived, from everything that has patterned our thinking. The second voice is the voice of goodness — what we call God. Some people don’t connect with the word “God,” so their ego tries to fill the gap: “You’re doing okay. You’re alright.” That can function as a kind of false reassurance, but it isn’t as powerful as a voice grounded in something greater than human power.

The third element is your individuality — the uniqueness of who you are, that will always gravitate toward one of those two voices.

Discovering the Voice of God Within

Once you discover the voice of God inside of you — the voice of goodness and love — something shifts. It’s the voice that says: “Take care of yourself. You are okay. You are good enough.” The voice that says: “There are things that are broken, but you can fix them with a way of life. You are not permanently this way. It can change right now.”

That’s the new voice — the unfamiliar one we’ve always wanted but didn’t know how to access. As we grow and discover a new way of life, we start to realize that voice needs more expression. That’s what Step 2 is all about: we come to believe that a power greater than ourselves can restore us to sanity. We start building a desired relationship with the voice of goodness, with the voice of love. And we start to understand: it’s not the voice of condemnation. That’s the other one.

The War Between Two Voices

The dark voice is the voice of humanity’s accumulated trauma — cunning, baffling, powerful, and triggered constantly by the three-dimensional world around us. When you see greed, anger, pride, gluttony, envy, lust, sloth — any of the deadly sins — the voice of man-consciousness permeates your thinking. Even something that sounds spiritual — “I don’t know how people live without God” — can still be judgment. Still a form of self-righteousness. The voice of mankind is illusory; it masks itself as wisdom while it tears you down.

That voice grows stronger the more we engage with the negative realm. It tells you: “You don’t measure up. You’re not doing good enough. It’s never going to get better.” That is not the voice of God. That is the voice of man-consciousness. That is the most beautiful way I can describe it.

The Serenity Prayer as a Compass

The Serenity Prayer maps this perfectly: “God, give me the strength to accept the things I cannot change” — there is a voice inside me that says I’ll never change, life won’t get better, I don’t measure up. “The courage to change the things I can” — there is also a voice that says your true self is the voice of unconditional love, where there is no darkness, only light, and even failures become assets.

And most importantly: “The wisdom to know the difference.” Just by making that petition, in this very moment, you’ll know which voice you’re listening to right now. That’s connecting to your individuality. That’s the real you.

There’s three factors: your individuality will always connect to one of those two voices because of that universal oneness. Which one do you want it to connect to? The voice of unconditional love — or the voice built from mankind’s 8,000 to 10,000 years of barbaric-to-modern history? Now you have the tools to choose.

Have fun,
Much love,
KC