title: Your Sacred Self
author/editor: Wayne Dyer
reviewed by: Lee
YOUR SACRED SELF
Wayne Dyer takes us on an inward journey enabling us to arrive to our Sacred Self. His work is a synthesis of the different the labels that identify the process called, contemplation.
It is enlightening to discover that the ego is a synthesis of the accumulated information from others whose focus was on striving whereas in the quietude of silence one has already arrived.
One chapter in his book that I found fascinating was called, "Cultivating The Witness." In this section he brings to the reader's attention the constant chatter going on in our minds. He labels this observance, The Witness. This voice is categorized as coming from outside and speaking to our Sacred Self.
Dyer uses an analogy. If an outsider choreographs your dance of life, it detracts from your own quest of your Sacred Self. No one else knows this Self.
The Sacred Self finds peace below the surface of all the turmoil and strife. Dyer teaches a method of going below the surface of turbulent waters where one can hear the true self in silence. Silence, he says, is the voice of God.
Mr. Dyer helped me realize that there is goodness at the center of our beings. He has a meaningful way of directing us to banish doubt from our lives at the very beginning of his book.
He speaks from knowledge of The One who directs his life. This knowledge is never found in striving but rather by arriving in the silence of God's Voice, knowing her completely as a man can know woman.
Connectiveness is a thread that runs through this work. Stating that we are all equal and the only thing that makes us special is our connection with one another by the common element, God. He states there is no separate God for each of a separate or us or a separate God for each culture ethnicity or race.
Dyer's parting gift for us is the "Prayer of Saint Francis" to lead us to create a collective Spirit of our Sacred Selves.
Lee (April '02) reminds us of St. Francis Prayer for Peace:
"Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love,
Where there is injury, pardon,
Where there is doubt, faith,
Where there is despair, hope,
Where there is darkness, light,
Where there is sadness, joy.
Oh, Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console,
To be understood, as to understand,
To be loved, as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning, that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born again to eternal life."