Uncharted: The Journey Through Uncertainty to Infinite Possibility by Colette Baron-Reid

Your past has defined the map you use to navigate your life.

Remembering the Future: The Path to Recovering Intuition by Colette Baron-Reid

Intuition is the link to our soul's inner wisdom, but it can be blocked by unresolved emotional and psychological baggage.

I believe that life is love -- not the kind that you read about in romance novels, but love in its true creative form.  It allows the Divine to take shape in an expression of life that's an ever-sustaining circle. We're given life by this love that lives through us to create more life.

The only limit to intuition is the mind that it's filtered through.

By developing your intuition, Me organically becomes We -- but not the We that's comprised of a group of individual Mes.

Intuition is the sixth sense that everybody possesses, although it varies in degree from person to person.

Intuition is like a radio that picks up transmissions from a vast cosmic radio station -- a living consciousness that's sending out news of everything that's happened, is happening, and will (or potentially could) happen…. We allow the boundaries of Me to include more than Me, sometimes just for seconds, and we intuitively hear this information (clairaudience).  Alternatively, it might translate into spontaneous knowing (claircognizance), emotional sensing (clairsentience), or an inner vision or prescient seeing (clairvoyance).  I liken it to music that we can hear, experience, or tune into once we learn how to turn on the receiver.

To begin the process of recovering your innate gift of intuition, it's crucial that you become conscious of how you perceive the world.  How much are yo in your bubble?

The process of regaining your intuition is all about ego deflation.

There are 7 main Spiritual Keys to tap in to: Truth, Reverence, Humility, Courage, Forgiveness, Stillness, and Love…. The Keys all lead to connection and serve to reduce the separated sense of self.

The intuition filter becomes clogged because of the ego's need to only acknowledge local reality as truth.

Simply put, being Me is about living in a story.  Objectively getting to know your story, including what's influenced it and why, will help you clear your filter.

The act of telling the truth about who you are to yourself and others is hugely important because it results in clarity, which is essential if you want to tune in to a greater awareness.

When we're humble and accept life exactly as it is, our intuition provides us with clarity.

Our shadows define us in silence, but speak loudly through us nonetheless -- sometimes subtly, sometimes blatantly -- turning us into unknowing puppets manipulated by invisible strings.

We're called many times to have courage in our lives, and often we pretend that we don't hear.  Who will we be if we're no longer who we were?

When forgiveness is forgotten, the same hurts find new ways of showing up in our lives over and over?

The Map: Finding the Magic and Meaning in the Story of Your Life by Colette Baron-Reid

Creating reality has much more to do with what is unseen and denied in the psyche than setting positive intentions.

Where are you right now?  Close your eyes and describe where you feel you are.

The map becomes visible to you when you make a conscious choice to be awake, aware of something greater than yourself, and to embrace the possibility of a pattern created by spirit that you can't always make out from where you stand. 

As soon as you define your location, you access your powers of observation.

You can bypass your ego's need to feel important, recognized, and heard through surrender.

Remember that you are not your inner landscape.

The only way to turn off the "autopilot" setting in your mind that causes you to have instant emotional reactions of fear, doubt, anger, or anxiety is to develop the habit of awakening the observing self. This inner witness is the most powerful manifestation of your higher self.

Your thoughts, feelings, and beliefs form an internal landscape.

When you relax into the seasons of your life, you truly enjoy living as a single person, being at the height of your career, or parenting young children.  You take things as they come instead of forcing life to conform to your timetable.

The more you affirm that there's no time, the less of it there is.

Part of the reason we feel lost is because we think too much about the past or future instead of the present moment.

If we avoid our emotions, we find ourselves back in the same old emotional place again and again.

Slowing down and becoming mindful actually creates more time for you.

Regardless of the goal, you must create the emotional reality of those future circumstances within yourself in order for the external world to begin reflecting your new inner reality.  Then you must be open to the way the dream manifests.

No matter what the temporary conditions of your life are, even if you believe they're permanent, you have to honor what you have now in the present and be grateful for it.

You quiet the ego by listening to it and having compassion for the parts of yourself that are difficult to accept.

As painful as it is to admit to powerlessness, it's also liberating.  By letting go, and relinquishing your power to Spirit and Divine guidance, you fin true strength, courage, and self-worth.

The false symbols of safety are money and power.

Participating in Creation means giving up resistance to change, which is the only constant in life, and recognizing that you're part of that ever-shifting living web.

Reality is a mystery that is always moving.

The reality we experience when we take off the blinders of logic and emotion is nonlocal, mysterious, and magical.

Magic answers.  Just be prepared for a potentially strange delivery.

When you get right down to it, physical reality is an illusion of perception.  At the quantum level, a human being consists of a bunch of lights turning on and off, storing, sending, and receiving information encoded into energy.

Synchronicity is a reminder from Spirit that we are all connected.

Shouldville is a land of sticky social obligations.

Looking within at your own wound will make you feel vulnerable and unsafe.  It's also the only way to find your courage.

Your discomfort with another person is meant to make you look closer at why that individual is in your life.

All change, even when you've longed for it and worked for it, is unsettling.