"Bringing one’s personal life into alignment with the natural laws and universal principles is the great challenge for today’s seekers. Information overload, a lack of time, and an inability to connect with essential spiritual teachings conspire to make the journey to consciousness a daunting one. In Awakening: A Daily Guide to Conscious Living, preeminent teacher Shakti Gawain offers gentle daily guidance for that journey."

Transformation

There are many sources to explore and find some answers to many questions we have. I guess such a great volume of information could serve as total confusion.

What exactly does one have to do to start the process of knowing oneself? How to transform from a mechanical existence to conscious living?

For the majority of people, the process happens through translation, which means any change in their belief system will be molded over the centuries by environment, including self-help tools.

Transformation is a bomb! It requires an inquisitive mind first and foremost.

An inquisitive mind is a foundation for acquiring an open mind. (You are able to look at any concept, however weird or unacceptable it might seem, and analyze it without rejecting it as a nonsense, and in the end to see it as valid as any other concept.)

Have the courage to be honest with yourself (believe me, it is the hardest thing, it destroys your existing world, leaving you in chaos and a void).

On the ashes of the old values, you create, consciously, new ones!

"If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of their own heart?"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

To see that line, in you own heart, is the first step to transformation!