I'm Fascinating My Entertainment: Exploring the Interior Life

By Jenice L. Staniford

Not long ago I retreated for a few days to my desert cabin. I started looking through a stack of my old journals from the 70s and 80s, and what struck me was that what I was saying to myself on a spiritual level is as relevant now as it was then.
The quotes relate specifically to the accompanying Mandala.

Since childhood Ive been fascinated by the concept of the soul and its unfolding. Over the years, spiritual teachers, mandalas, and personal art captured and inspired me to reflect on my lifes daily lessons.

Four children, professor husband, studying for a Masters degree, financial challenges, all the life is daily work was my life, all the while exploring the interior life.

Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. (Jung) Awakening to a more compassionate awareness of self and others is what its all about. Ive learned that who I am is much more entertaining than who I want to be.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Apr 16, 2013
• ISBN: 9781481729369

Jenice L. Staniford

Jenice L. Staniford, M.A., M.S., M.F.T. Her many years of counseling experience have been in the private sector and as a program manager of Family Advocacy for the Marine Corps. Semi-retired and widowed, her daily life in Southern California centers around family, friends and personal interests: choir, painting, and a great love of literature. I’m Fascinating My Entertainment is a unique journal reflecting one woman’s human soul in motion. If the reader is looking for a how-to book, this is not the one. Rather it: • Illuminates gentle guidance of the soul negotiating daily life. • Reveals the human soul in motion. • Provides drawings of colorful, personal reflections, and focus for meditating on the reader’s specific issues.

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Published by AuthorHouse 04/08/2013

ISBN:   978-1-4817-2935-2 (sc)

978-1-4817-2936-9 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2013905061

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…Educating the Heart…

- Dalai Lama

INTRODUCTION

Some months ago I gave myself time off from my normal