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

“Think of it,” Brian said, “as you are sitting around with all the parts of yourself. One part might be a chairman of the board, another part a small scared child, another part a huge yelling parent. There's a different level of empowerment when one sees that all the parts are integral to the whole.”

Because your blessings are inside your learnings, and your learnings are inside your themes, and your themes are inside your conflicts, and your conflicts are in the one and only place they can be—

This kind of faith is a deep knowing, a deep trust that all is intended for the good—a trust that you are safe speaking your truth, safe asking for understanding, safe creating space for the Voice to speak and safe receiving the Voice's guidance.

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.”

And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday, far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way to the answer.

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?

When do I feel powerful? Powerless? What is the difference between the times when I feel powerful and the times when I feel powerless?

The unconscious mind, it's important to know, has no awareness of past or future. For the unconscious there is only now. For the unconscious mind, the pain didn't happen last week or last year or last decade—it's happening right now. For the unconscious mind, a scary thing isn't happening in the future;the fear and worry about it is happening right

Rainer Maria Rilke said this most eloquently in Letters to a Young Poet, which he wrote in 1929 to encourage a nineteen-year old writer: I would like to beg you, dear sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very fo