Habit has a strangle-hold on human beings. Of course we tend to classify habit as good and bad, and then try to get rid of those habits which society has termed 'bad', and attempt to cultivate, the so-called good ones.
Take the case of a man who works unremittingly all through life, because he imagines that that is the only way to be productive and be a useful member of society. He has never known leisure, and it is only leisure that allows reflection and contemplation. If he misses these things, he has missed everything in life. Equally so, if in the name of a 'religious life' a large number of people in the nation's productive force idle away their lives practicing some mumbo jumbo, and are not productive members, it would be calamitous to society. So one has to examine every habit, however ancient or modern, to see whether it is making us mechanical and preventing spontaneous action.
Habits, of course, die hard. It is so difficult for man to get rid of his prejudicial thinking especially in regard to his religious and racial hatred. Man would have to carefully look at his habit of thinking in a particular way, and why he is unable to break it. If he continues with his settled inclination of the mind, he will never be able to truly see the actual situation on the ground, the 'what is'. If he cannot purge himself of his patterned thinking based on some belief, some doctrine, system or mode, he will never see the truth of anything.
Unless he positions himself in 'truth' he will not be able to listen to god. The Eternal continues to speak even today as he once spoke to Moses or Mohammed, Buddha or Jesus. If they were able to hear him speak while we don't, it is not because they were the 'chosen few' but because we, through habit, do not have the ears to hear. We could shed our opinions, prejudices, attitudes picked up from society, and drop everything from our consciousness that is contaminating it. The man who has thus emptied his consciousness of all the old, can now hear god speak to him. Since your consciousness is now pure, and the world has no hold over you, the ground where you stand is holy, your actions are holy, and whatever you touch becomes holy. You have been hypnotized by the world for a long, long time and your habits of thinking, behaving, have all been set by it.
You will have to dehypnotise yourself and go back to your original state by
shedding all tendencies and fixations. When you are thus completely free of
all hypnosis, all illusion, all that is blocking you from encountering god,
then you will be able to listen to him, partake of him, and carry him with you
wherever you move. People will then, perhaps, know god through you!