How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

The Fabric of the Future: Women Visionaries Illuminate the Path to Tomorrow, published by Conari Press.

Can we be open to the possibility that there is nothing wrong? Can we find the willingness to consider that all of life is a treasure beyond imagining, a beautiful gift to enjoy?

everything be exactly as is—nothing to do, nothing to get, nothing to be. Take a

All the misery and suffering that has happened has done nothing to who you are. Everything we seek is here when we stop doing anything other than being.

Here’s a summary you can use to continue this process for yourself. 1. Choose an issue you want to work with. 2. Sit down, stay still, and be aware of all that goes on. 3. Notice what belief systems are held in place with this issue. 4. Notice which subpersonalities are involved. 5. Listen to what the voices have to say about the issue and about wh

Remember that essential spiritual question: Who am I following in life, authenticity or egocentricity? Here is what I’m learning. The one who wants to know the answer to that sort of question is in the latter club. That which is present to what is, is in the former.

Humiliation is an experience that only egocentricity has, and from my perspective, it is the only thing that really needs the experience. It is extraordinarily important to understand that egocentricity is not capable of the brilliant clarity that is there when the illusion of a separate self is not.

“You will do for the love of others what you would never be willing to do for yourself.”

before he agreed to accept me, he had said, “I will find all your buttons and push them. I will find everything you cannot stand, and I will rub your nose in it.” Who could resist an offer like that? And here it was: something I really couldn’t stand.