Knowing Where to Look: 108 Daily Doses of Inspiration
A collection of stories, essays, and exercises to spark your creative instincts, activate your inner guidance, and enliven your dreams

Have you been called to express yourself with a level of courage and honesty that surprised even you? Did an image or moment cause you such joy that you needed to share it with the world? If so, you know what it means to be inspired.

World-renowned spiritual teacher Light Watkins has spent most of his life learning how to seek out and tap into sources of inspiration. “Inspiration is part inner guidance, part blind faith in a greater possibility, and part inner voice,” he writes, “nudging you to take an action that helps you grow and expand your awareness.” In Knowing Where to Look, Light presents a trove of compelling inspirational material to catalyze positive change and give you fuel to push through self-limiting beliefs.

Through 108 diverse essays, anecdotes, and parables, Light provides doorways to inspired thinking and imagination. Prompts offer reflection questions and action steps for further bringing your inspiration to life. Here you will also discover:

• Recognizing the opposite of inspiration: the inner critic and its demands for safety

• The joys and challenges of living minimally in a consumer society

• How to listen for the intuitive whisper of true inspiration

• Why the best action you can take when you’re creatively lost is to keep moving

• How to grapple with fear when it stands in the way of your dreams

• Why following your inspiration will often remove you from your comfort zone

• Questions to ask yourself in order to recognize your blind spots

• How to reorient your attitudes toward the concept of success

• Embracing whimsy and small moments of chaos as allies

• Why the process of achieving mastery is far from straightforward

Rather than being a linear set of exercises, Knowing Where to Look is meant to provide the spark you need just as you need it. Open to any page at random, and discover an unexpected source of inspiration.

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Knowing Where to Look: 108 Daily Doses of Inspiration
A collection of stories, essays, and exercises to spark your creative instincts, activate your inner guidance, and enliven your dreams

Have you been called to express yourself with a level of courage and honesty that surprised even you? Did an image or moment cause you such joy that you needed to share it with the world? If so, you know what it means to be inspired.

World-renowned spiritual teacher Light Watkins has spent most of his life learning how to seek out and tap into sources of inspiration. “Inspiration is part inner guidance, part blind faith in a greater possibility, and part inner voice,” he writes, “nudging you to take an action that helps you grow and expand your awareness.” In Knowing Where to Look, Light presents a trove of compelling inspirational material to catalyze positive change and give you fuel to push through self-limiting beliefs.

Through 108 diverse essays, anecdotes, and parables, Light provides doorways to inspired thinking and imagination. Prompts offer reflection questions and action steps for further bringing your inspiration to life. Here you will also discover:

• Recognizing the opposite of inspiration: the inner critic and its demands for safety

• The joys and challenges of living minimally in a consumer society

• How to listen for the intuitive whisper of true inspiration

• Why the best action you can take when you’re creatively lost is to keep moving

• How to grapple with fear when it stands in the way of your dreams

• Why following your inspiration will often remove you from your comfort zone

• Questions to ask yourself in order to recognize your blind spots

• How to reorient your attitudes toward the concept of success

• Embracing whimsy and small moments of chaos as allies

• Why the process of achieving mastery is far from straightforward

Rather than being a linear set of exercises, Knowing Where to Look is meant to provide the spark you need just as you need it. Open to any page at random, and discover an unexpected source of inspiration.

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Knowing Where to Look: 108 Daily Doses of Inspiration

Knowing Where to Look: 108 Daily Doses of Inspiration

by Light Watkins
Knowing Where to Look: 108 Daily Doses of Inspiration

Knowing Where to Look: 108 Daily Doses of Inspiration

by Light Watkins

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A collection of stories, essays, and exercises to spark your creative instincts, activate your inner guidance, and enliven your dreams

Have you been called to express yourself with a level of courage and honesty that surprised even you? Did an image or moment cause you such joy that you needed to share it with the world? If so, you know what it means to be inspired.

World-renowned spiritual teacher Light Watkins has spent most of his life learning how to seek out and tap into sources of inspiration. “Inspiration is part inner guidance, part blind faith in a greater possibility, and part inner voice,” he writes, “nudging you to take an action that helps you grow and expand your awareness.” In Knowing Where to Look, Light presents a trove of compelling inspirational material to catalyze positive change and give you fuel to push through self-limiting beliefs.

Through 108 diverse essays, anecdotes, and parables, Light provides doorways to inspired thinking and imagination. Prompts offer reflection questions and action steps for further bringing your inspiration to life. Here you will also discover:

• Recognizing the opposite of inspiration: the inner critic and its demands for safety

• The joys and challenges of living minimally in a consumer society

• How to listen for the intuitive whisper of true inspiration

• Why the best action you can take when you’re creatively lost is to keep moving

• How to grapple with fear when it stands in the way of your dreams

• Why following your inspiration will often remove you from your comfort zone

• Questions to ask yourself in order to recognize your blind spots

• How to reorient your attitudes toward the concept of success

• Embracing whimsy and small moments of chaos as allies

• Why the process of achieving mastery is far from straightforward

Rather than being a linear set of exercises, Knowing Where to Look is meant to provide the spark you need just as you need it. Open to any page at random, and discover an unexpected source of inspiration.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781683647706
Publisher: Sounds True
Publication date: 05/25/2021
Pages: 200
Product dimensions: 5.60(w) x 7.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Light Watkins has been a meditation and spiritual teacher for more than 20 years. He is the author of The Inner Gym and Bliss More and hosts a weekly podcast about hope called At the End of the Tunnel. Light became nomadic in 2018 and now travels the world giving talks on happiness, mindfulness, inspiration, and meditation to sold-out audiences. He’s been profiled in Time, Vogue, Forbes, People, the New York Times, and mindbodygreen. For more, visit lightwatkins.com.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Right Place, Right Time 1

What Is Inspiration? 7

The Opposite of Inspiration 10

How Does This Book Work? 14

Doses

Our Third Day 21

Wiggle Room 22

Secret Beauty Tip 23

The Discipline Illusion 24

Feed the Baby 26

My Obligation 27

The Best That Can Happen 28

Lose Money 30

The Thing About Advice 31

An Act of Kindness 32

Just as Reel 34

Teachable Moments 35

One Step at a Time 36

Will-Strengthening Hard 40

Ten Years 41

The Triple Filter 42

Their Own Path 44

It's AH God 45

The Ten-Year Test 46

The Cracked Pot 47

Out the Window 48

Bold in Action 50

While You're Busy 51

Resistance 52

The Work 53

The Wrong Note 54

Everything at Once 56

Shaped Like Trees 58

Further Down the Road 60

Welcome to the Family 61

Autocorrect 62

Dreams Deferred 63

How to Help 64

One Bike Left 66

The Real Reason 68

New Years 69

Every Little Bit Counts 70

Morning Prayer 73

The Life Mammogram 74

The Answer 75

Everything Is an Illusion 76

Your Attitude 78

Real Meditation 79

So Gullible 80

What Feels Right 82

The Power to Heal 84

The Gratitude Conversation 85

Different Definitions 86

Abundance 87

To the Mountaintop 88

Twenty-Seven Years 90

Our Words and Actions 92

Right on Time 93

This Is Good 94

In a World-Class Way 98

The Opposite 100

Outstanding 102

Pencils Down 103

The Beauty of Dreams 104

Free at Last 106

Big Mistake 107

A Little More Courage 108

The Shipwreck 109

Both-And 110

Fear of Missing Out 112

You Still Won 114

If You See Something 115

Under the Hood 116

Hodophobia 118

Ultimate Freedom 119

Use the Boos 120

No Days Off 122

When the Sun Begins to Shine 123

Phantom Delays 124

Light Is a Fraud 125

The Long-Term Cost 126

Before You Feel Ready 127

Picking Up the Pieces 128

Frogday 131

You've Got the Wrong Person 132

Black Boys 134

The Power of Small Things 136

Pins, Tucks, and Clamps 139

The Rarest Friend 142

30,000 Days 143

Cultivated Within 144

If You Can 145

Chipping Away 146

Flipping the Frustration 148

Precious Stone 150

Mom 152

Spirit of Heaven 154

Turn a Life Around 156

The Last Day 158

Big Problems 160

What Flows Out 161

Catching Monkeys 162

Fish Love 164

What's Possible 165

Life Is Good 166

Your Brilliant Idea 167

Oops 168

Modern Art 170

Hurt People 171

My Feets Is Tired 172

Your Intentions Were Good, But 173

Bad Habits 174

The Value of Nothing 177

A Good Reason

Epilogue 181

Acknowledgments 185

About the Author 187

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