This is not the only book you will need to sort yourself out.

The intention here is to point you in the right direction, if you want to do the deep work of self-discovery. You'll need to reference other sources, such as the Real.Clear. seven-book series of spiritual teachings, to fill in all the blanks about the topics we touch on.

Self-development is a long road. It's good to see the whole map before starting the journey.

There are many links in this book to the deeper content. Consider reading this entire—very short—book first, before clicking any links. Self-development is a long road, and it's good to see the whole map before starting the journey.

If we don't understand our ultimate destiny, it's easy to get lost along the way. Worse yet, we might think we've arrived, but our true home is actually still a long way off.

So let's get at it.

—Jill Loree

When Jesus said to pay attention to the log in our own eye, instead of the splinter in someone's else's, he was pointing out the doorway to freedom.

When I first read the Pathwork lectures, I knew that I was in the right place.

But gaining an intellectual understanding—and later an inner knowing—of this path is very different from knowing that you're in the right place.

What the work truly entailed, what the path was about, how it all worked, and—why does it have to be this hard? All that was pretty hazy.

Everything is right there in the lectures, but it's a vast and dense body of teachings. Plus, it's an experiential path.  

I had to learn by doing the work. Each step was revealed through crisis, hard work and dedicated study. Only very gradually did the big picture become clearer.

It seems that until we step through the doorway and enter this spiritual journey, it is hard to know what it looks like. But we can try to demystify it a little.

We have chosen sixteen facets of the process that a person will encounter on the path. We'll explore each through the teachings and through examples from our own experience.  

Our intention here is to give a sense of what life looks like when we're "doing the work."

—Scott Wisler

 

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