Self-Realization and Other Awakenings

falling away of all ideas and self-concepts, of all
beliefs, and of the conventions which are your life. I
am not saying you will lose everything, but you must
be ready to lose everything, and much will be lost,
such as ignorance, pain, and a numbness to life, and
with it, you will also feel more deeply the sorrow of
the world and an awakened sense of compassion and
the need to be your brothers’ keeper, along with the
power to actually make changes in the world. Yet,
some of you will find so much peace and happiness at
discovering who and what you really are, you will not
be able to move to change or perfect anything in the
world. You will be at peace and at love.
So, this is a spiritual book probably unlike most you
have read before. It urges you to study yourself, find
your sense of core existence, the ‘I Am’ and to love it.
Also it strongly suggests that you find someone or
something in the world to love, to awaken the ability
to love in you, watch the love grow until it is
completely unbearable, and then you will discover
that love is from you, you have created it, YOU ARE
LOVE ITSELF! That is one of the major rooms one finds
in that inner mansion.
With that discovery and many others like it, you
will become complete, whole, loved, find that your
essence transcends even life itself, that all of
existence is only your plaything. Not that you can