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When you are ready to ask the 'biggest questions',
you are already prepared
for the answers.
Here is a true story of something that happened
in 1993,
a question and an
answer that was to become the source of my
life's work.
A
medicine bottle mysteriously appeared late one afternoon
in the rolling surf of Race Point Beach, Massachusetts.
Within this bottle was a note. It was as if that note was
the
direct response to a frantic request I had just made,
"If there is anything else out there, please send me
a sign!"
As that final word left my lips, I felt the bottle
touching my toes.
The note read as follows:
"To
find the world's greatest treasure, walk on the beach in
the
sunset, look towards the west and see The Greatest
Treasure."
 
This
photo is of the
actual bottle (click to enlarge)
This coincidence confirmed that the most profound and
unfathomable
aspect of life was not immediately visible to the eye. The
simplicity of the
message also revealed that letting go of all unnecessary suffering
was
entirely possible. But the question was: How?
My
subsequent search for answers took me on 'the spiritual path'
through
three continents and to many different teachers, Siddha masters and spiritual
groups. The search yielded much
knowledge, but little relief from the burden
of my questions - until 2001, when my last teacher Andrew Cohen
revealed
during a summer retreat in France: Enlightenment is the
relationship you have
to the experience you are already having.
Following
an awakening to the true force of conditioning, I realized that
not
every road leads to home.
This book emerged as a way to identify the
part of
ourselves that does not know how lost it is in conditioned
concepts and beliefs.
The
discovery and expression of our full potential for the sake of
humanity is
the greatest challenge we can offer ourselves. Many who genuinely
seek to
awaken are oblivious to the extent that false impressions occupy the
tenets
of their spiritual searching.
The
Uncommon Path
is one path to the expression of your full potential for the
sake of humanity. It is not for the faint-hearted. The sincere
aspirant will find
that the admission of freedom
is merely the beginning of that path.
Should you be willing to face millennia of conditioning with the
intention to
awaken, that outcome is already guaranteed.
Mick
Quinn
Vila Nova de Cerveira
Portugal
September 11th, 2006
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