t you can ask, "What would my high self do?" and you'll know the right course. Trust yourself; trust the process that is your life. You are the spiritual being you've been waiting for (211).
The basic spiritual lessons Socrates tries to impart to Dan are far from abstract or mysterious or mystical---they are the lessons of wisdom, compassion and humor. There are many roads to the discovery of these lessons, but Millman chooses the Eastern way, the way with the self at the center. The Eastern approach to truth first of all has to do with becoming aware of the workings of the mind. The person who does not know about the workings of his own mind is like a person being unaware that his actions are caused by a marionette pulling on strings attached to his limbs. When Dan is upset by changes in the weather, S
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