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Table of Contents
PROLOGUE 5
What is Your Essential Self? 5
Who is This Book For? 8
How to Use This Book 11
INTRODUCTION TO YOUR ESSENTIAL SELF 15
How We Come to Self-Exploration and Inner Work 15
A Crack in the Fabric 17
Dissatisfaction 22
Crisis 23
A Life-Changing Moment 27
?STAGE 1: The Process of Self-Discovery 34
- The Basis for an Inner Practice 34
A Response to a Deep Longing 34
Inner Work Practice 35
The Essential Practice of Awareness 39
The Art of Listening 46
- Identity, Separation, and Division 53
Going Back to Childhood: Deepening in the Present 53
Attachment to Personality and Character 59
Personal Stories 66
Giving to Ourselves: Working with Ego 72
- The Dynamics of the Inner World 79
The Lessons of the Father and the Mother 79
The Baggage of Inner Characters 89
Boundaries Enable Relationship 93
Personal Empowerment 98
- Relationships 105
Relationships and Projection 105
Ritualizing the End of a Relationship 109
The Path of Love 114
Acknowledgement and Support 119
- Stages of Transition 127
Thresholds of Maturity 127
Learning from Everything 144
The Seven Stages of Forgiveness 148
- A New Revolution in Awareness 158
The Thinning of the Veils 158
The Last Grains of Attachment 161
Healing the Original Wound 163
A Gate into New Consciousness 167
Remembering and Wholeness 171
?STAGE 2: The Transformation into Authenticity 176
- Becoming Who You Are 176
The Bridge of Authenticity 177
Alone on the Threshold 178
Waiting 181
Doing and Being 183
Clearing Up Loose Ends 187
Life Transforms 190
- Responding from the Heart 195
Destiny and Purpose 195
Inhabiting the Heart: Practicing Compassion 199
Can We Love Enough? 202
- Stabilizing in Transformation 206
The Four Stages of Ego 206
Aging 209
Death 214
Love 218
- Ways to Realization 224
Group Practice, Commitment, and Letting Go 224
Spiritual Questions and Divine Lessons 229
Beyond Contradiction and Paradox 233
Does Inner Work End? 238
STAGE 3: The Source of Consciousness 242
- Becoming the True Self 242
Psycho-Spiritual Unfolding: Beyond Being and Experience 242
- Realizing Our True Nature 247
Beyond the Shadows of the Divine 247
Experiences of Transcendence 251
De-Spelling Illusion 255
The Divine Nature of Personality 259
The Unattainable Goal 260
Now: Freedom and Fear 264
- Perpetual Illumination 271
No Teacher, No System 271
Who ?I? Really Am 274
Spontaneity and Surrender 280
?AFTERWORD 284
?Bibliography 286
Index 289
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