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YOU ARE THE SOURCE OF WARMTH AND LIGHT.

"A mind opener of a book." -- Rick Field, coauthor of Chop Wood, Carry Water and editor-in chief of The Vajradhatu Sun

REMEMBER

YOUR

ESSENCE

Paul Williams

ou posess an essential power, the power of your presence. This power has nothing to do with your talents, what you have, what you do, or who you think you are. It is the power of being yourself -- your essence.
Remember Your Essence is the simple and beautiful key to this source of strength, calm, and inner direction. It's an inspirational mediation that leads you within yourself to find energy for self development and antidotes to self-doubt.
This is a completely original book that you can turn to again and again for guidance, reassurance, and replentishment -- a daily spiritual banquet.

"Paul Williams' prose poem turns on a self-healer's gritty and hard-won common sense. It lifts the spirit."
-- Aram Saroyan, poet and author of Trio: Portrait of an Intimate Friendship

from page 3
Picture a burning log, like in a fireplace, a hearth.
Now see it as if it were floating in the air a few feet in front of you, and notice that there are two elements here: the log, and the fire that clings to it.
Now move this image of a burning object into your body, so that you can feel it like a warm, comforting glow inside your chest.
This burning log is real, and it exists inside you.
The inexhaustible log is called your essence; and the fire, the flame, is your life.

Copyright © 1987 by Paul Williams.

Paul Williams is the author of Das Energie and Waking Up Together. He started the first rock-and-roll magazine, Crawdaddy!, in 1966 and edited The International Bill of Human Rights. He lives in northern California.

ILLUMINATIONS Paul Williams' Home Page How to get this book

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