Writing Down Your Soul: How to Activate and Listen to the Extraordinary Voice Within

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase “each other” doesn't make any sense.

Many of us spend decades chasing those elusive “right” answers, and the whole time life just seems to get more and more complex. This complexity is a gift. Not knowing the right answers is a gift. Problems without apparent and immediate solutions are gifts. It is these gifts that bring us to the place where we want and need a spiritual solution. It

In a compassionate question, the focus isn't on finding the facts, drawing conclusions, or making judgments; the focus is on connection—connection with the truth of your story, connection with the truth of your soul, connection with the truth of others, and connection with the divine within. Compassionate questions move you closer and closer to you

inside your story. Trust the process and know that you are on the right path, and you will, in perfect time, touch that golden box. And when you do, you will look back at your soul's journey and say, “This is very, very good.”

Read each item on this “I deserve” list and check off the ones you deeply believe. It

Read this list of permissions. Check the ones that make you want to pump your fist and shout, “Yes, I do!” Skip the ones that make your eyes go wide or your stomach jump. As you read, you may think of some new ones. Add them at the end.

How can I create a life on the outside that looks like the me on the inside? In what ways am I blocking that congruent life from coming into being? What needs to happen for my outside to start matching my inside?

What do I need to let go of right now? What do I need to release? What am I finished with? What is finished with me? What will happen when I let go? Am I afraid to let go? Why am I afraid? What's holding me back?

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep. People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open. Don't go back to sleep.