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I Believe That Everybody Needs To Tell Their Story - To Be Heard, To Be Seen, To Be Acknowledged, To Be Understood. We All Want That, Deep Down Inside - And Writing A Book Is A Great Way To Make Sense Of Your Own Experience And To Share It With Others.

I Think In The Western World We Have Gotten Overly Identified With Doing, And We've Kind Of Forgotten About The Art Of Being. And We Don't See Value In It; We Think That If You're Not Doing Something All Of The Time, Being Very Active And Producing Something, Then You're Sort Of Wasting Your Time.

Each One Of Us Has All The Wisdom And Knowledge We Ever Need Right Within Us. It Is Available To Us Through Our Intuitive Mind, Which Is Our Connection With Universal Intelligence.

A Deadness Occurs In Relationships When People Are No Longer Willing To Tell Each Other How They Really Feel. When People First Fall In Love They're More Willing To Do This Because They're Still Getting To Know Each Other And Dependency Has Not Yet Set In. As Soon As It Does, Though, People Often Stop Sharing Their True Feelings Out Of Fear Of Loss.

Many Of Us Fear That We Are Not Attractive Or Desirable Enough To Attract Others. We Have Believed That We Are "not Enough." Today Let's Remind Ourselves That We All Receive Our Beauty, Energy, And Light From The Same Inexhaustible Source. As We Acknowledge This And Begin To Love And Appreciate Ourselves As We Are, Our Channel Opens And We Have Available To Us The Infinite Vitality, Beauty, And Magnetism Of The Life Force.