A Voice to Myself Opened a Door to Life: Exploring Emotions, Perceptions, Love, Awareness, and the Divine

by Taner, Ma'yun

• ISBN13: 9781452504452
• ISBN10: 1452504458
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-04-13
• Publisher: Textstream

Summary

When author Ma'yun Taner's life fell apart, she grasped at any hope she could envision for survival. She found herself asking, "Why is this happening to me?" In that moment of naïveté, she realised that her question was not one of blame, but rather of honest inquiry into the path her life had taken. That question was the first step on her path to self-responsibility. Soon, she found that each answer inspired another question, inspiring a process that opened a door to a life of love, gratitude, joy, happiness, and abundance. Life is not a set of random and chaotic events. She now knows that what she thinks, feels, expresses, and does are the forces that actually shape her life. Among the lessons she's gathered to share are some of the most profound she's learned: The quality of your life does not rely on what you have-or don't have. All that matters is how you use the "ingredients" of your life. The quality of your life is not defined by your wealth (or lack thereof), your health (or lack thereof), or your abilities (or perceived lack thereof). Your reality is created by your feelings, expressions, and actions. Amid the turmoil and challenges of the world, a life filled with love and happiness can be yours. Love, kindness, compassion, honesty, and integrity are the only things that can dispel despair, hatred, violence, poverty, and suffering in this world.

Excerpts

This book didn't start as a book. It started out of frustration, in a disorganised way in different note-books and scraps of paper. I had tried to journal in the past in beautiful books I bought, but it never really happened regularly enough. I was scattered and so was my attention to my life and my inner needs. All these untidy notes were an attempt to clarify my thoughts and my living of this life. A voice to myself! I soon realised it could be a way to find myself. I became more organised, within and without and the urge to be clear got stronger. I did not fail to see in retrospect how my progress mirrored my intention, attention, and actions. It was amazing that the very process of writing helped connect many strands of the web of my life and opened up wonderful discoveries, allowing a feeling of freedom to emerge. The amazing thing about writing is, once you start, astonishing things happen. I started with an idea and in the end it is more than I ever imagined it would be. I still re-read it and think of where and how did each idea come to me? I had no idea when I started; that the embryos of realisations, ideas, and conclusions were within me. It was the process of writing that gave them birth. So my disorganised bits of paper became a manuscript which instead of being just a journal became a book of questions asked, hypotheses proposed, conclusions drawn, and still many questions to be asked and answered, and a document that has become a scaffold of clarity for my issues and my life..... This is about the journey I have traveled. My major growth and awareness started more than ten years ago when I asked myself this question, "Why is this happening to me?" From that beginning I have traveled to where I am today, negotiating my life from a completely different perspective. I feel I have a way to navigate, not control, [the previous mire of] life. I have tools, insights and, sign posts., Iand it is not random, cruel, isolated, or accidental. Everything has its reason for being, or making its way int to my consciousness or awareness. I can use that to create my reality. It's do-able, it takes awareness!!