It is simple, but not easy.

This practice of free attention is an end in itself. Doing it is an essential movement toward becoming “unstuck.”

(See “Deep Dive: Remembering Who You Are.”)

As a crisis deepens into impasse, there is a return of the repressed. Ancestors and demons come back to haunt, and the crisis may call on parts of ourselves that we have left behind.

Self-images often seem to have lives of their own, separate from our daily reality, and they exert a powerful presence that affects decisions and distorts perceptions.

We don’t leap out of bed in the morning because we are good at something. We leap when we are excited. This excitement is a sign that, at this time in our life at least, we have found our place in the world.

For individuals with a high need for dominance, the exercise of power becomes a goal in itself.

Spend time at each pole of the tension, allowing images, feelings, and ideas associated with that pole to surface.

what we actually end up doing, may be different every time, even as it flows from enduring patterns of interest.