“Seek deeply” has been my life’s man- tra. I left my family for Prep School in my Freshman year of high school because I wanted to do the thing that I thought would serve God the best: I was going to become a nun. You couldn’t get much closer to God than that, could you? That’s what I wanted.
I don’t think I got all the puzzle pieces turned face up during those years, but I did turn up enough to discover that my individuality was fading away and dying behind that crisp black and white habit and I had to get out and look for another way. My parents were chagrined but I was on a mission for me and I could not allow the critical words and feelings of my family to interfere with my search for the truth.
The path my life followed is the most substantial learning curve I’ve ever been on. Highs, lows, curves, pitfalls, bumps, boulders, green pastures and sweet blue sky – every event, every person, every idea built my foundation. It was broad, strong, and substantive. I’d learned Life’s Laws. I could now answer all of my own questions. I knew I had arrived. I was capable of pro- viding for me and I did it unashamedly, realizing selfishness was not a vice. It was
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the virtue of interest in the self, the epit- ome of self-care.
Shedding Catholicism and embracing the ultimate in metaphysics with an interim experience with Religious Science, or The Science of Mind, was a move in the right direction. I know that I could now sit comfortably in a forum of interested indi- viduals and comfortably answer questions about actual understanding because where at one time my teeth might have chattered, my ideas have now been puri- fied. What remains is unshakable. This is empowerment at its finest.
Self-care and self-healing require that you learn life’s laws and how to use them, and the most important one for me is the Law of Cause and Effect. I love to start people to thinking, so I frequently ask them if they’ve heard of this Law. Most say that they have. And then I ask them if they
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