A Brief Guide to
"Getting Started"

A Suggested 11 Step Path to
Conscious Awareness

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to "Getting Started"

c.      The creating and experiencing will go on and on forever.  Life is a process.  All That Is (and that includes you!) will continue to evolve — will continue to become — for eternity.

     The process of freeing yourself from your mind is usually a life-long undertaking.  There are so very many attachments, so many desires we can (if we so choose) allow to just fall away….  The veil of the ego seems so compelling and real — because we believe it is.  It can easily take a lifetime (or much longer) to allow your perspective to shift so dramatically that you can lift the veil and see past it, realize the truth, and experience the perfect Unity of the magnificent, indivisible Whole. 

     As difficult as it might seem to be, such a shift in perspective will yield rewards that truly defy description.  It is, if you will, “worth the effort.”  To know the infinite peace and boundless joy emanating from the unconditional Love that defines Who You Really Are is, without question, priceless.  Your personal experience of Ultimate Reality as an invaluable aspect of the unified, magnificent Whole… as you realize you are an inextricably interconnected “piece” of All That Is… such an experience is worth more than your mind can even imagine.  Once you experience the Unity and infinite peace of All That Is, you will never again forget during this lifetime of yours the feeling of unlimited and unconditional Love you have within… the Love that is Who You Really Are.

11.  Read this booklet again.  Read many books about Life and Spirituality, and thus remind yourself — make yourself mindful — over and over again….

     Believe what you come to know in your own experience is true.  Be wary of anyone or anything that purports to be the “only” or “best” way to be or do anything at all.  Be wary of anyone or anything that claims salvation will come in the future, or that God will be found only through their seminar, or their book, or their religion, or their practices….  Yet listen closely to anyone who would guide you to peer deeply within yourself to determine what is your truth.  Yes, pay close attention to anyone or anything that suggests you hold within yourself every answer — indeed, that within you is All That Is.  Be very alert when a claim is made that no one knows better than you…. 

     You can continue to believe the illusions surrounding you are real, if you choose to do so.  You can continue to believe you are separate and alone in the world, if you want to believe that.  But I suggest to you that your ideas about what is actually true will continue to change and evolve.  Further, I believe you will find life much more pleasant and satisfying if you seriously undertake a program or course of action to increase your conscious awareness and expand the context from within which you are viewing (and thus experiencing) your world… and your life.

     Please accept my deepest, most heart-felt good wishes to you as you come to know, through your own experience, Who You Really Are.  I know you and I are One.  I want the very best for the “part” of me that is expressing as you — for I know what’s good for you is good for me.  Thank you so much for helping me to gain an ever-increasing willingness to allow the bright light of conscious awareness to shine forth from within me.  I choose to bring light to world.  I now invite you to join me.  Let us shine the light of our conscious awareness onto those “parts” of us that are still mired in illusions and fear.  Let’s be the light.  Let’s be the answer, no matter what the question.

To Be is to live with God.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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