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Opening The Heart Of Western Medicine
Field Guide
to What Really Matters
The Paths of Wisdom
You do not have to wait until the end of life to ask the questions that matter most.
Across cultures and centuries, wisdom traditions have taught that suffering, love, forgiveness, presence, purpose, surrender, and impermanence are not abstract ideas.
They are paths of experience we navigate again and again throughout a human life.
I came to know these paths through my work with dying people. At the end of life, the questions became clear: What mattered? What remained unfinished? What was loved? What needed to be forgiven? What could finally be released?
But these questions belong to all of us. They arise in ordinary days as much as final ones — in grief, illness, joy, change, uncertainty, beauty, and love.
Begin with the question you are carrying.
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Explore the 7 Paths
to the 7 Paths of Wisdom
Life is filled with challenges that inevitably contain the seeds of transformation. Embrace life's difficulties, grieve your losses, and find joy in what remains. Face your pain.
Love flows through everything in existence. Use the power of Love to heal your unique wounds and then offer it to others through your own broken heart. Love your life and yourself.
Untie the knots of resentment that keep you from growing. Release the blame you carry to heal the guilt and shame that paralyze you. Forgive your past.
Bring your attention to this present moment and use the power of breath to regulate your nervous system. Be fully right here, right now for the life you have been given. Find your safe center.
Your outer path is your chosen work – the calling of your human essence. But your soul calling forms the inner path and guides you toward what you are here to learn and to give. Be your TRUE self.
Give up what you cannot control. Let the movement of life pull you where it will and respond to the best of your ability. Trust the path you’ve been given. Go with the flow.
Accept that nothing lasts and everything changes. This is the source of your power. When you have equanimity toward death you cannot be ruled by fear. Let life change you.
You will know when you are ready to begin. Follow the Field Guide to walk through all 7 paths and transform your life.