Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand. [Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit”]

Note in this beautiful metaphor that the real you is not connected to your physical self, and those who think it is don’t understand. That’s because the real you is also not connected to the ego’s way of thinking.

The search to find the real you should not have to wait until your body is aged and falling apart, but for many it does. Too often, it takes a lifetime of trial and error before we finally realize that the ego’s pursuits have not and will not produce any connection to the real.

You can’t find real fulfillment until you discover who you are. Until then, you’re a missing person. And you are missing personhood.

This is what Awestruck is all about – finding that missing person. And doing so requires a different focus – a different quality of attention – than we are used to assuming.  This quality of attention is centered on the soul and not the mind. And once we grasp that quality of attention – once we are awestruck – it opens the door to the journey. The hero’s journey to the center of you.

Why do we call it a hero’s journey? And where is this center of me of which you speak? And what’s this business about needing to be awestruck to begin? And where in the world is this podcast going?

In today’s episode, I will attempt to answer all of these questions.

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Extras

The Awestruck Podcast musical playlist 
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