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Your Divine Lover is waiting for you! What if you had the same passion for yourself that a lover would? What if that love were within you, guiding you every step of the way?
(Excerpt from the foreword by Penny Peirce)
We live in a time when the globalization of our awareness is expanding by leaps and bounds. We’re becoming ever more conscious of the staggering varieties of people on Earth and their different standards of living. We’re flooded with knowledge of myriad religious beliefs and cultural practices, and with the ignorant fears and dangerous superstitions that threaten our collective survival. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed, or even hopeless, when confronted with the diversity, fragmentation, and conflict that seem apparent on the surface of things. How will we ever understand each other and learn to live together without destruction following constantly in our wake?
To find an answer, we must first consider the possibility that there is an answer, and that re-framing the problem is necessary for discovering it. We might consider the idea that diversity has a positive purpose, that our exploding global consciousness is occurring with perfect timing so something better can happen. Instead of looking at our differences as fodder for defensive action, we might see them as helpful. To find an answer we must ask new questions. Questions like: What do we all have in common, in spite of our differences? How can we see ourselves each as an integral part of a higher, more unified awareness? How can we see each other as aspects—unmaterialized, potential aspects—of our own greater self? And how can we then understand and trust the flow of intent, knowledge, and action through all of us, by all of us, and for all of us?
Tuula Fai has begun this re-framing and questioning process here in Seek the Lover Within: Lessons from 50 Spiritual Leaders, by going directly to the wisest people she could find and talking to them about what they see as important today, about what they learned for themselves and how they learned these core lessons, which may indeed be universal among all peoples. What may have begun as an innocent desire to represent the views and wisdom of spiritual teachers became an experience that changed Tuula, cutting through her identification with her very bright mind and putting her squarely in the center of her heart’s much broader understanding of unity and ability to engage with life. I know this because I’ve watched how the process of writing this book has opened her to a new sense of self, and in a very short time. |
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