CHAPTER TEN
BECOMING AVAILABLE
Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
—Johann Kaspar Lavater
 
If we are the old-school micromanagers, then we’ve been in hiding. We’ve been unavailable. We have disguised who we are.
We’ve been hiding behind a disguise made up of our problems, and the excuses for having those problems. We’ve been cloaked in a robe of alibis, hiding behind a disguise that says we consist of our unsolved problems, that who we are is a composition of our unsolved problems in life!
We’ve taken on this identity instead of our true potential, and because we’ve done that we’ve made ourselves unavailable to the very freedom for which we yearn. Unavailable.
So it’s time to turn and go another way, to calmly choose another ...

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