listening to that other voice . . .

"The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self - all your wishes and precautions - to Christ.  But it is far easier than what we are all trying to do instead.  For what we are trying to do is to remain what we call 'ourselves,' to keep personal happiness as our great aim in life, and yet at the same time be 'good.'  We are all trying to let our mind and heart go our own way - centered on money or pleasure or ambition - and hoping, in spite of this, to behave honestly and chastely and humbly.  And that is exactly what Christ warned us you could not do. . . .

That is why the real problem of the Christian life comes where people do not usually look for it.  It comes the very moment you wake up each morning.  All your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals.  And the first job each morning consists simply in shoving them all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing in.  And so on, all day. Standing back from all your natural fussings and frettings; coming in out of the wind."

- C.S. Lewis in Mere Christianity, Chapter 8