When you know that you aren’t living your true life – when you are in the wrong career, the wrong relationship, with the wrong friends, or in the wrong location – you can spend all your time and effort looking at what’s keeping you there. However, all those reasons or excuses won’t make that feeling or that knowing go away.
Life, spirit, God – call it by whichever name works for you – that voice is always talking to you.
Your conscience tells you when you’ve wronged someone. It also tells you when you are wronging yourself and wronging your own life. To listen and act on what your conscience is telling you takes courage. And – and this is the kicker – it can cost you to listen and act on what your conscience is telling you.
“There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, that is, the voice of conscience, even though such obedience may cost many a bitter tear, and even more, separation from friends, from family, from the state to which you may belong, from all that you may have held as dear as life itself. For this obedience is the law or our being.” ~ MK Gandhi
So, yes. There is a cost to obeying your conscience. But the payoff of living an authentic life true to yourself – well, that payoff is far, far greater than anything that it may cost you.
