Where She Who Fills the World recovered what was buried, As You Think, So You Become turns to what was written.
There is a sentence running underneath your life. It begins with the two oldest words in scripture, I am, and then it finishes itself without asking your permission. I am the one who has to work twice as hard. I am the one who gets close and then loses it. I am too much. I am not enough.
You did not choose that ending. It was written early, by people who were doing their best with what they had, and it has been quietly deciding what you reach for ever since.
This book takes that sentence apart.
It works through scripture, through what is actually known about how a thought lays itself down in the body and hardens into a pattern, and through the old teaching the mystics never stopped repeating: a person becomes what they hold themselves to be. Not what they want. What they assume.
Inside
- Where the I am sentence was first written, and whose hand was on the pen
- Why repeating an affirmation you do not believe changes nothing, and what the body is doing while your mouth says it
- The word treated as an instrument rather than a wish
- The difference between wanting a thing and assuming you are the kind of person it belongs to
- A practice for reaching the place the old sentence was written, and revising it there
You have been becoming something this whole time. The only question is whether you chose it.
