Remembrance: Letters to My Soul

Remembrance: Letters to My Soul
A special book serialization and collaboration between BB[KC] and author Karen Wright


Publisher's Message
Every now and then you come across a person who is truly unique, who goes out of their way to unselfishly help others. Such is the case with Karen Wright, who you may have first met on BB[KC] through her podcast "Hearts on Fire," which we featured for one week in January.

Her ebook Remembrance: Letters to My Soul is a compelling account to help people use their accumulated wisdom to find what they are looking for in life, or what they hope to be in their remaining days, and what legacy they want to leave behind. The editors at BB[KC] and Ms. Wright are taking an unprecedented step to serialize her book - ten chapters in all - over the coming months. Of course, if you can’t wait for the next chapter to be published, you can always visit Karen at her website, Wrightminded, to purchase the book, as well as see the other activities she is involved with.

Chapter Three is "Dream Thieves." Ensuing chapters will be published on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of every month.

Martin Diano
Publisher


Dream Thieves
by Karen Wright

“Nothing happens unless first a dream.”
~ Carl Sandburg

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Those who have abandoned their dreams will discourage yours. …rain on your parade…pull the rug out from under you…stab you in the back. They’ll do it because they hurt and you’re a painful reminder of the hopes they just can’t hope for anymore.

They’ll do it because misery loves company and they don’t want to be the only ones with empty excuses at the end of their lives. They’ll do it out of self-defense and envy.

And sometimes they’ll do it with a mother’s love or the concern of a best friend. They’ll do it because they care about you and only want what’s best for you. They will do it to protect you from getting hurt. Their hearts are in the right place…or so we tell ourselves, because we love them too.
Friend or foe, loved one or sworn enemy – you must beware of psychic vampires that will drain the last ounce of life from your dreams. Dreams are fragile things whose jugulars run close to the surface. With hardly more than a passing remark, these flights of fancy can evaporate.

In a fundamental way, your dreams represent your most cherished vision of your life. THE FUTURE! All the good and opportunity possible. A distinctive path meant just for you. Just thinking about this future will transport you into a world that holds promise and joy.

But, as a dream, its existence can be ephemeral. Subject to mood and faith, it lives or perishes. Its future is never certain until the dream becomes the reality. Like the little bunny in the Velveteen Rabbit, dreams become real when you believe in them.

Protect your dream. Remember, those who give advice or warnings do so from their perspectives with their own fears and disappointments pulling the strings. Their comments have nothing to do with you. They are focused on how they would feel or act in your place. Their warnings are born of their own apprehensions and doubts. Even the loving warnings. They are not you!

Feed your dream every day. Play in its atmosphere, breathe deeply…and it will feed you too. Transform its promise into reality. Dreams become real when thoughts become actions.
“Whatever man can conceive and believe, he can achieve.” Napoleon Hill understood dreams. Notice the three stages. Thought, nourishment, and action. The surest way to quell the good intentions of others’ advice is to live your dream. Make it real and the nay-sayers will lose their voice.

Sometimes we tell young kids, "You can be anything you want to be in life!" Often we speak these words somewhat tongue-in-cheek...knowing that obstacles and restrictions will undoubtedly raise their seemingly un-hurdle-able walls. We've been there, right? We know life doesn't give it away.
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Whatever it may be for each of us.
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But, at times, the words are genuine and sincere. We see it, deep in their eyes - their destiny is theirs for the choosing. Potential literally oozes from their innocent pores. They're quick, smart, agile...the world is their oyster. For them, life is a sumptuous feast set in their honor.
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You might have been the child that heard such words of promise. You might have smiled and mused, "I'm going to have a great life - I can be whatever I want!" And sure enough, it was easy...being popular, getting good grades, having the best choice of almost everything. Ego strokes were plentiful. Everyone thought you could walk on water...if you just "set your mind to it." It felt good, it felt destined...just let it happen.

But, it never did happen. Time did. Moments and years. And one day you woke up and realized that no one had used the P-word with you for quite some time. All that Potential. What happened?
Potential has a shelf-life. Its limitless possibility evaporates in the vacuum of squandered time. The Course in Miracles says, "Time can waste as well as be wasted." Treat it badly and it will return the favor. Lose-lose.

What potential sleeps within your hopeful, yet idle heart? How long has it starved? What dream is un-realized? What You is unborn?

All is not lost. Your fate is not sealed! Even lifeless potential can be revived. Yes, even yours. Every day that the sun rises is a new opportunity – a fresh start. Think about it...why in the world do days exist? Why not just have one endless, uninterrupted life? Why is there day and then night? Waking and sleeping? Sunrise and sunset? Days seem to have a beginning and ending. What if you began to treat them as such?

Symbolically you live 365 lives each year. Each one possesses every possibility imaginable. Each one is an opportunity to begin again. To leave doubt and worry in yesterday. To grab life with gusto today. You're born anew each morning and potential seeks release again.

Today – that's all you have, really. Will you live it...each minute? Will you do what brings you joy? Will you say words of love? Will you laugh? Will you extend kindness? Will you be astounded? Will you know gratefulness? Will you bring a smile to a down-hearted soul? Will you make the day fuller because of your presence in it?

Stay awake today. Be alive today. Raise your passion, strengthen your resolve. This is your life but, tonight, this day will pass away. When your eyes close, I hope there is a knowing smile on your lips that you were alive today. You did wring the potential from every moment. It was a day worth a day of your life.



About the Author
Karen Wright is a cliff jumper who understands the pain of facing fear and doing what your heart says you must. Her life is summed up by her favorite Marcel Proust quote, “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

Her nomadic search for Self, seeking numerous careers and locales, became her soul’s curriculum. Her many paths led to lessons in letting go of fear, listening to inner guidance, and coming home to her own spirit. It was an inner journey—a shift in perspective—that prepared her to help others navigate that rocky course to spirit. “It is the longest journey and the shortest distance,” she confides. “With a shift in thought, entire lives can change.”

An acclaimed inspirational speaker, Karen is the author of The Sequoia Seed: Remembering the Truth of Who You Are. This profound little book speaks to everyone who seeks the personal clarity that comes with a step back from the chaos of life. Karen’s words will feel like they come from your very soul and will transform confusion into certainty. A book you’ll read over and over and continue to find pure gold.

Karen is also the author of internationally read Waking Up, an inspirational and life changing on-line ezine with a fiercely loyal following. Her writing speaks of everyday challenges with self-worth, fear, and life purpose—encouraging us to embrace the unknown and recognize the greatness in us all.

Karen’s study of chaos theory, quantum physics, and brain physiology led her to see that the fulfillment of our individual lives is inextricably connected to humanity’s spiritual evolution. Her position is succinctly profound. “Whether we speak of countries or families, all life is one.”

Karen resides in the Pacific Northwest—close to family and the nurturing sustenance of undisturbed natural beauty. To order all ten chapters of Remembrance: Letters to My Soul or other books by Karen go to http://www.wrightminded.com. Available in e-book ($10US) or printed booklet ($12US plus shipping) formats.