"when everyone chatters and no one takes heed"

"...I only ask this, when doubt wrinkles your brow, when incomphrension clouds your eyes, when distaste rests like a rank fog on your lips, then think how we few have held our tongues for so long. How we have choked back the truth. How we have burned in our hearts rather than risk the telling. And when you feel most far from me, then at that moment listen hard. Not to your thoughts, which will mislead you, nor to your heart, which will lie, but to the voice behind the voice, and trust the tale and not the teller." Graham Joyce, The Limits of Enchantment

This reminds me of so much. However, to discuss my thoughts and whisper from my heart would probably miss the point. Listen. Listen. Listen. Who do you hear? What do you hear? Listen. (Are you getting distracted from within...?) Listen harder.