9 Innate Clarity and Peace of Mind

“We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.”

Marshall McLuhan, Media theorist

“I don't need you to change. And I don't need anything from you. Whether you believe it or not, you don't need to do a thing…”

I burst into tears.

The year was 2004, and I'd just travelled several hundred miles to have a session with a coach. When I arrived, I explained that I really needed a breakthrough, and was worried that if I didn't “get it right”, my time and money would be wasted, and I would be no further forward. Worse still, I would be stuck in the stress and dis-ease that had me come to him in the first place.

He told me I didn't need to do anything, and I burst into tears. And as I sat there ...

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