GRATITUDE: A mind-altering Substance
GENTLENESS: Changing the Messages We Give Ourselves
RESPONSIBILITY: Taking Care of Ourselves
MEDITATION: Creating a Safe Space
ACCEPTANCE: Making Friends with What Is
COURAGE: Ending the Victim Trap
PEACE: Ending the Conflict Within
LOVE: Transforming Relationships
The Nine Principles at a Glance
‘Take courage, join hands, stand beside us.’
CHRISTABEL PANKHURST
WE is a journey based on nine principles that have been taught by sages and saints throughout the ages and they have the power to transform your life and the world around you.
It isn’t a lifestyle choice to be bolted onto our normal ‘me-centred’ way of living; it’s a path of radical transformation that puts compassion for the world at its core.
Use this book both as a guide and a source of inspiration. If you’re hurting, it will help you heal. If you’re lost, it will steer you home. If you’re searching for a purpose, it will gently lead you towards fulfilment.
We arrive in this world without instruction manuals and we grow up without an emotional toolkit. So it’s easy to lose our way.
As we go through life we amass emotional scar tissue from the knocks that we inevitably take. We become like electrical circuit boards that have got so clogged up by the silt of life that we can no longer connect with ourselves and our core beliefs, let alone with the world beyond.
All of us start out in life with a strong internal value system – a sense of what’s right and wrong and what’s fair and what’s unjust. But then life intervenes. In the cold light of reality our ideals can quickly seem naïve, unrealistic and untenable. However strong and heartfelt our intentions, it’s hard to give effect to our beliefs when we’re struggling, stressed or in emotional pain.
Before long we’ve abandoned those values in favour of the rules we’re taught by