The first step in awakening to your inner life and to the depth and promise of your solitude would be to consider yourself for a little while as a stranger to your own deepest depths.
To decide to view yourself as a complete stranger, someone who has just stepped ashore in your life is a liberating exercise.
This meditation helps to break the numbing stranglehold of complacency and familiarity.
Gradually, you begin to sense the mystery and magic of yourself.
You realize that you are not the helpless owner of a deadened life but rather a temporary guest gifted with blessings and possibilities you could neither invent nor earn.
~JOHN O’DONOHUE
janet balboa 