“Why?” is another tough question to stop asking because it's the one thing we all want to know. Why didn't I get the job? Why did the cancer come back? Why am I broke? Why did he do that to me? Why did she leave me? Why is this happening to me? All of these questions can be distilled down to “Why me?” And “why me” isn't very helpful. It's really a

Give yourself permission to ask for and receive miracles. Giving yourself permission is really quite straightforward: Either you believe you deserve, or you don't. You feel either worthy or unworthy, loved or unloved, guided and protected or judged and punished.

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.

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.

Each question is a bridge between where you are and where you want to be, what you know and what you want to know, who you are and who you want to become. Notice, too, that these questions can be repeated a day, a month, a year later. These are soul probes that penetrate further and further into your core each time you ask them. These are not

“When someone connects with a deep inner truth,” Brian said, “especially one that is opposite their conscious, expressed beliefs, tears well up.”

rush it would be a form of self-bullying, a way of saying I'm not worth it. It's saying, “Let me rush through what I know is important so I can get to what I've accepted as being important.”

Some writers find that talking with others helps them clarify and cement their new insights. If you typically “think out loud” or “brainstorm” this way, choose your partner carefully. You'll know you're speaking with a true friend of your soul if the conversation expands and enhances your insights and leaves you feeling stimulated and uplifted. On

grace before you eat. (If you don't have it, get a copy of A Grateful Heart: Daily Blessings for the Evening Meal from Buddha to the Beatles, edited by M. J. Ryan, and choose a grace from it every night.)