For those of you asking about early-bird payment plan, you are correct there was no option for this on the Year of Inquiry information page. None.
I completely forgot it.
Since this option hasn’t been anywhere in sight (we’ll talk about me as a non-detail person another time) click here, scroll down to the very bottom of the page where the payment plan option are listed, and you’ll see early-bird payment plans added for YOI.
Because I didn’t even have them posted until late last night, these early bird plans are available until Friday.
*******
I know I’ve been constantly mentioning Year of Inquiry, but there are other very, very powerful events happening around me, too.
The serious illness of a dear friend, a long-awaited journey to the place I was born (I leave Wednesday), reuniting with two important friends with whom I lost touch, and facilitating people on incredibly deep stressful beliefs about love, longings, and death.
Sometimes, when you sit with others who are facing huge change, loss, or who are very frightened, like my friend who is very sick….
….there is nothing to do but be.
Who am I, without the story I’m telling? Without the thoughts I am thinking? Without needing to do anything?
Without the fear being all there is, whether fear of dying, or fear of the terrible pain my friend is going through right now, or fear of the temporariness of this life?
Who would you be?
Who are you, without your stressful beliefs?
I notice as I spend time with my friend today who is so very sick, and feel the sun on my face, and later hear my daughter telling me about her weekend away with two friends.
Here, there is space.
Here in this moment, a red flowered rug, two glowing computer screens, a light over a kitchen sink, a candle flame in a glass jar, an empty water glass, a pair of blue flip-flops, a scrap of ragged white paper on the floor, a young man called a “son” walking through the room with two fat library books in hands, a spider moving slowly around a web in the ceiling corner, and thoughts of my friend.
Here. Sometimes, with a breaking heart.
“This is about realization, not about changing anything. The world is as you perceive it to be. For me, clarity is a word for beauty. It’s what I am. And when I’m clear, I see only beauty. Nothing else is possible. I am mind perceiving my thoughts, and everything unfolds from that, as if it were a new solar system pouring itself out in its delight…..
….So you don’t drop your thoughts of chaos and suffering out there in the apparent world. You can’t drop them, because you didn’t make them in the first place. But when you meet your thoughts with understanding, the world changes. It has to change, because the projector of the entire world is you.” ~ Byron Katie in Loving What Is
Here, I notice even with a breaking heart, and a temporary human life, and my friend’s beautiful eyes who I looked into today as she felt terrible physical pain and enormous courage….
….I love this place, even though it is so heart-breaking sometimes.
That’s who I am without completely believing the stressful thoughts.
And actually, with them, too.
Much love,
Grace