Sublime

Eventually we find that, after unearthing our misconceptions in such diverse areas as love relationships, friendship, work, play, sexuality, and creativity, there will be certain common denominators to our images. Our work will circle around certain kinds of issues and we can begin to identify the false belief behind these issues as our main image.

The personal will is a force like a river. You can either flow with it or swim against it. You can use it either to draw you toward your higher path or to constantly punish yourself for apparent transgressions.

The practice above all practices is to relinquish the immature desire to be taken care of in false belonging and to parent our own originality. Again and again, our dreams demand leadership from us, calling our life’s vision forward into the world, step by tenderbrave step.

The Self is the key to healing and integrating our disparate parts through its Compassion, Curiosity, Attunement, and other capacities. It is also the natural leader of our inner family, a guide through the adventures of life.

1. Suffering doesn’t block awakening, it catalyzes it. Most people don’t begin their spiritual path because everything is fine. It’s suffering that cracks the surface of the self, but only when we turn toward it with open-heartedness and support does it become the doorway to transcendence. Trauma and revelation aren’t

The first instrument, or capacity, the open mind, is based on our ability to access our intellectual, or IQ, type of intelligence. This allows us to see with fresh eyes, to deal with the objective figures and facts around us. As the saying goes, the mind works like a parachute: it only functions when it is open. The second capacity, the open heart,