- Foreward
- Introduction
- My Journey
- Adversity
- Anger
- Body Wisdom
- Love Knocks
- Money Tree
- HealthLoveWealth
- Simplicity
- Generosity
- Shock! Treatment
- Responsibility
- Grateful
- Growth Notes
Transform momentarily
I want to be different overnight. I want a miracle of transformation. I want to be a new person. Today I take the first step of this 10,000-mile journey: I live in the present. My transformation is made up of many days like today.
Find Light in Dark Times
Chapter 12:
Grateful Transformation
(sample excerpts)
Find Light in Dark Times gives you philosophical and spiritual tools to help you recover from
losses of all kinds, then emerge into the light. These are sample sections from Chapter 12 on grateful transformation.
Whatever your funk, however sharp your pain, no matter how massive your troubles, you hold the door shut on yourself if you maintain and feed the dark times. Perhaps you even identify yourself as the poor fool who keeps getting creamed by the world, keeps getting bashed in the face by each new trouble, each new blow. If you stay in darkness, you choose darkness. If you choose light, come on out! Make a transformation in your life starting now, today, this very moment. Reach for the light in your spirit and you will find plenty.
Some spiritual people become pious. They nauseate other people with their better-than-thou consciousness. They feel righteous because they commit their lives to do good, serve humanity, feed the poor, house the homeless. These actions can help others, but don’t fall into the trap of piety. Becoming present and spiritually light does not make you better than somebody who still dwells in the dark. It makes you fortunate. You are a lucky one who has the good fortune to change your own consciousness.
The essential key to enlightened consciousness is moment-by-moment gratefulness. It’s quite simple. No dazzling display of light lets you know you have increased your consciousness. Make yourself grateful for every mouthful of food, every sip of water, every ray of light that falls upon your eyes, every touch that strokes your skin. Transform your consciousness to full-time gratefulness and you will enjoy an extraordinary shift in your way of being in the world. Light will gush into you.
