Welcoming Awareness Presentation

1. Wrightpaths to Empowerment:
Awareness as Personal Growth

2. Wrightpaths to Empowerment: Awareness as Personal Growth
Welcoming Awareness
"The Guest House"

3. Wrightpaths to Empowerment: Awareness as Personal Growth
Welcoming Awareness
"The Guest House“
This being human is a guest
house, every morning a new arrival.

4. Wrightpaths to Empowerment: Awareness as Personal Growth
Welcoming Awareness
"The Guest House“
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

5. Wrightpaths to Empowerment: Awareness as Personal Growth
Welcoming Awareness
"The Guest House“
Welcome and entertain them all!

6. Wrightpaths to Empowerment: Awareness as Personal Growth
Welcoming Awareness
"The Guest House“
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture.

7. Wrightpaths to Empowerment: Awareness as Personal Growth
Welcoming Awareness
"The Guest House“
Still, treat each guest honorably.

8. Wrightpaths to Empowerment: Awareness as Personal Growth
Welcoming Awareness
"The Guest House“
He may be clearing you
out for some new delight.

9. Wrightpaths to Empowerment: Awareness as Personal Growth
Welcoming Awareness
"The Guest House“
The dark thought, the shame, the
malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.

10. Wrightpaths to Empowerment: Awareness as Personal Growth
Welcoming Awareness
"The Guest House“
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent

11. Wrightpaths to Empowerment: Awareness as Personal Growth
Welcoming Awareness
"The Guest House“
as a guide from beyond.
Rumi

12. Wrightpaths to Empowerment: Awareness as Personal Growth
Welcoming Awareness
Welcome and entertain all of our
emotions whether they be good or
bad.

13. Wrightpaths to Empowerment: Awareness as Personal Growth
Welcoming Awareness
Treat these emotions honorably.

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Welcoming Awareness
honor their presence

15. Wrightpaths to Empowerment: Awareness as Personal Growth
Welcoming Awareness
It may take having this emotion to
allow you
to move beyond the suffering.

16. Wrightpaths to Empowerment: Awareness as Personal Growth
Welcoming Awareness
Delight in where you are
because of
where you have been.

17. Wrightpaths to Empowerment: Awareness as Personal Growth
Welcoming Awareness
Struggles

18. Wrightpaths to Empowerment: Awareness as Personal Growth
Welcoming Awareness
Look for the best rather than the worst.

19. Wrightpaths to Empowerment: Awareness as Personal Growth
Welcoming Awareness
When we choose to see
the positive side…

20. Wrightpaths to Empowerment: Awareness as Personal Growth
Welcoming Awareness
We realize

21. Wrightpaths to Empowerment: Awareness as Personal Growth
Welcoming Awareness
the day is not comprised of every
second being seen as
negative.

22. Wrightpaths to Empowerment: Awareness as Personal Growth
Welcoming Awareness
Awareness

23. Wrightpaths to Empowerment: Awareness as Personal Growth
Welcoming Awareness
Awareness
Wisdom

24. Wrightpaths to Empowerment: Awareness as Personal Growth
Welcoming Awareness
Awareness
Wisdom
Story

25. Wrightpaths to Empowerment: Awareness as Personal Growth
Welcoming Awareness
Awareness
Wisdom
Story - Metaphor

26. Wrightpaths to Empowerment: Awareness as Personal Growth
Welcoming Awareness
Awareness
Wisdom
Story – Metaphor - Poem

27. Wrightpaths to Empowerment: Awareness as Personal Growth
Welcoming Awareness
Awareness
Wisdom
Story – Metaphor – Poem
Sacred Writing

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Welcoming Awareness
Awareness
Wisdom
Story – Metaphor – Poem
Sacred Writing - Experience

29. Wrightpaths to Empowerment: Awareness as Personal Growth
Welcoming Awareness
Possibility of a positive outcome

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Welcoming Awareness
Consider it pure joy, my brothers and
sisters,

31. Wrightpaths to Empowerment: Awareness as Personal Growth
Welcoming Awareness
whenever you face trials of many kinds,

32. Wrightpaths to Empowerment: Awareness as Personal Growth
Welcoming Awareness
because you know that the testing of
your faith produces perseverance.

33. Wrightpaths to Empowerment: Awareness as Personal Growth
Welcoming Awareness
Let perseverance finish its work

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Welcoming Awareness
so that you may be mature and
complete,

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Welcoming Awareness
not lacking anything.

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Welcoming Awareness
we also glory in our sufferings,

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Welcoming Awareness
because we know that suffering
produces perseverance;

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Welcoming Awareness
perseverance, character;

39. Wrightpaths to Empowerment: Awareness as Personal Growth
Welcoming Awareness
and character, hope.

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And hope does not put us to shame.

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Welcoming Awareness
With awareness of choice, we can
develop perseverance, character and
hope that allow us to become the
person we are meant to be.

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Welcoming Awareness
Conclusion
Of
Welcoming Awareness

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Welcoming Awareness
Be sure to listen
To the Visioning Exercise
That follows this lesson.