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Journey to Serenity: Strength ~ Courage ~ Faith
by Patti ErnstPublish: Jul 04, 2020Biographies & Memoirs General Nonfiction Religion & SpiritualityBook Overview
<INTERNATIONAL AMAZON #1 BESTSELLER and #1 NEW RELEASELife hands us opportunities to reinvent ourselves! For me it came after six years of feeling something was missing but not having the courage to move forward. I took those years to develop strength, courage, and faith. I finally made the choice to change my life. I started over with no immediate financial support but a strong belief that I could find a way and do it.
Today many people are suddenly being handed the "opportunity" to start over with very little support or preparation. In some cases it is an opportunity to finally do what they have always wanted to do. I say "opportunity" because over the years I have come to constantly remind myself, "Another problem; another opportunity to grow." My wish is that you may have the courage to see the challenges in your life as opportunities.
On the eve of the New Year, I sit beside an oil lamp looking at the ocean. The sun has just set and the new moon hangs below Venus, the brilliant evening star. I am on an uninhabited island in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean. This is where I live now. This is the place and the experience I wish to share with others as I reflect on the long path that has brought me to a place called Serenity - as well as to a state of serenity. Life is different here. There are no roads, villages, or cars. I must be conscious of every little thing: tides, winds, and how to obtain water, food, and electricity. Yet in most ways life is simple.
The following is a remembrance of the path of ideas that has helped me go beyond my comfort zone into a state of learning, growth, and flow. Barbara Marx Hubbard said, "We are a developing species. We are moving from ego to essence; from personality to the core of who we really are." We are becoming more conscious, aware, and responsible.We will be living longer so we can complete the tasks we came here to accomplish. Many humans have moved from having to focus solely on survival needs to having the freedom to focus on awareness, self-expression, and creation.
The people on this planet two hundred years ago would have found it hard to imagine life today with computers, smartphones, luxury cars, supermarkets, expressways, and jet planes. Amazing changes, but the price we pay is stress and unconscious living. This book is about awareness and self-care in the 21st century. It is about living the second half of life with curiosity, caring, compassion, enthusiasm, significance, and trust. I offer this as a summary of that which has helped me become more conscious and awake: aware of how to live life in a fearless, enthusiastic, healthy, and sustainable way. A Path to Serenity is a "how to" book coming soon. Please use these ideas as a springboard to find those ideas that inspire and lead you.
