FOREWORD
Some things to consider
ESSENCE BOOK #1
The English language offers more than one million words we can use to communicate toward knowing ourselves and our relationship to all that’s here.
The 44 words carefully selected and ordered within ESSENCE by Ann Emerson and Bo Lockwood offer Sleeping Souls, Seekers, and the Awakened some of the best from those one million plus, from which to live a balanced life, filled with greater joy and contentment.
One of my favorite words, or Aspects as the authors call these precious 44, is Connectedness. The quote in its Context section, by Chief Seattle, who lived between 1786 and 1866, tells much about the usefulness and importance of words, since we are still basking in his wisdom today:
“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.”As my connected life experience unfolds like a Seeker on the edge of adventure, I find our information, comprising words, critical to the beneficial advancement of all. I wonder about the perspectives we add to the global information highway, of which we are all connected, which for me, raises the thought-provoking question….
Does the information we send and receive create accord or discord?
Miraculously, we all come equipped with an internal compass, a deeply physiological one. We’ve all felt joy and know it well. We can feel it in Chief Seattle’s words. They bring on a smile and contentment.
For those wanting to experience more of that and make a beneficial difference just by being joyful here, considering the 44 Aspects of ESSENCE, along with their Contexts, Daily Affirmations, and Insights, will sustain you.
Your unique internal compass is your guide. So stay alert to your joy. Within ESSENCE, whichever Aspects you find yourself drawn to, know that just by reading them you will be advancing the well-being of everything, including yourself.
Princeton, New Jersey
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