Thank you for allowing me to share this with our readers, Brian.
Dear Katie
I am a new subscriber to The Parlor, and have enjoyed the latest edition greatly, and am enjoying exploring the archive. I love the wisdom I'm finding there.
I just wanted to write to you to say thank you for sharing The Work. I am enjoying exploring this amazing process, and I'm feeling positive changes in my life already as a result. I want to deepen my practice, and am moving forward every day with it.
Just yesterday, I had a profound experience of The Work, after a difficult argument with my partner. It was amazing - I started from a position of such blazing anger, such self-righteousness, such belligerent indignance...and then I did The Work, and I felt all of that dissolve, leaving a humbling and beautiful sense of responsibility, compassion, and love. It felt as though I had traveled through time - the "calming down" period that would normally take a day or more, took only a few minutes. And it was more than just "calming", the natural settling down after a storm...it was like the storm clouds were actually clearing, leaving just the light and the fresh air. What a beautiful gift.
I very much hope to join you at an event in the near future - I live in the UK, and will certainly be looking out for any events near here which you scheduled in. I would love for you to come to England again...
With best wishes and much gratitude to you, in Love,
Brian
Comments (1)
I have had similar experiences. It's incredible to have stumbled upon this gift, after so many years spent struggling with all sorts of pain and difficulty. I kind of knew the problem lay with me, that the root cause was in my thinking, but all I could conceive of were various forms of meditation, trying to take the problems away without actually enquiring into them. Or beating myself up, or getting depressed, running away, chaos, all sorts of problems. Of, course none of it worked and the same anger, the same pain, kept coming up time and time again. Now, thanks to Katie's work, I have the tools. It all falls into place. I can't express how relieved and amazed I am.
Like Brian, I live in England, and I would be strongly drawn towards an event in this country, where I could do more work and share my own experiences.
Thank you!
Posted by ruskin | January 29, 2008 12:06 PM
Posted on January 29, 2008 12:06