Awakening: A Daily Guide to Conscious Living

402 Pages·2006·9.61 MB·English

by  Shakti Gawain

Awakening
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Creative Visualization Workbook
Developing Intuition
The Four Levels of Healing
Living in the Light (with Laurel King)
Living in the Light Workbook
Meditations
The Path of Transformation
Reflections in the Light
Return to the Garden
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Creative Visualization Meditations
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The Create Your Own Affirmations Kit
The Creative Visualization Deck
Awakening
A Daily Guide to Conscious Living
Revised Edition
SHAKTI GAWAIN
Nataraj Publishing
a division of
NEW WORLD LIBRARY
NOVATO, CALIFORNIA
Nataraj Publishing
a division of
New World Library
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© Copyright 1991, 2006 by Shakti Gawain
All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part,
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Text design and typography by Tona Pearce Myers
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Gawain, Shakti.
Awakening : a daily guide to conscious living / Shakti Gawain.— Rev.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN-13: 978-1-57731-532-2 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Self-actualization (Psychology) 2. Conduct of life. 3. Affirmations.
I. Title.
BF637.S4G389 2006
158.1'28—dc22 2005029237
First printing of revised edition, February 2006
ISBN-10: 1-57731-532-4
ISBN-13: 978-1-57731-532-2
Printed in Canada on acid free, partially recycled paper
New World Library is a proud member of the Green Press Initiative.
Distributed by Publishers Group West
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Acknowledgments
would like to thank Denise Grimshaw for her
Iinsight and creativity and for the many hours
of research it took to collect all the diverse quotes
and compile them into a form that works as a daily
meditation over the course of a year.
Special thanks as well to Kathleen Holland for her
many helpful suggestions, creative contributions, and
hard work editing and organizing the manuscript.
Thanks, too, to Kathryn Altman for coordinat-
ing the project, to Marc Allen for his support and en-
couragement, to Carol LaRusso and Katherine Dieter
for their editing and overall help, and to Elizabeth
Preim for her assistance in organizing the original
manuscript.
For the second edition I’d like to thank Georgia
Hughes, Tona Pearce Myers, and the rest of the team
at New World Library.
Introduction
any of us in the world today are on a con-
M sciousness journey. We are seeking to bring
our individual and collective lives into greater align-
ment with natural laws and universal principles, so
that we can live in balance and harmony with our-
selves, one another, and the earth. Today, with the
ecological, social, and political challenges we face in
addition to our personal issues, it is essential that we
learn to live more consciously. By individually taking
responsibility to live our lives with awareness, we can
set examples that will empower others in our world
to do the same.
Learning to live our daily lives with conscious-
ness is an ongoing, ever-deepening, lifetime process.
It requires that we contact our essential spiritual wis-
dom and integrate it into all other levels of our being
— mental, emotional, and physical. It challenges us
to recognize and release old patterns and beliefs
and to open to new ways in every area of our lives.
I hope this book may be a help to you in your