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The Spirit of Life (from the Holy Bible): The Journey Back to Your True Essence Awaken from the hiatus of illusion and embrace the fullness of your In
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ISBN13: 9798293621446
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 22 2025
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.26 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 22 2025
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.26 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In The Spirit of Life: The Journey of Return to Your True Essence, author Daniel Horacio Domé guides the reader on a profound journey away from illusion and back to their authentic, infinite Self. The book addresses the insatiable thirst of the soul, a deep feeling of dissatisfaction that worldly success cannot quench. It posits that this feeling is not a failure, but a sacred call to remember a forgotten Home. The purpose is not to add new information, but to help the reader unlearn the layers of false conditioning and remember the magnificence that has always been within.
Part I uses the parable of the Prodigal Son to illustrate our journey into illusion. It begins by describing our Divine Inheritance a primordial state of perfect unity with the Source of all life. This wholeness is lost when the voice of the ego convinces us to seek fulfillment externally, leading to a Voluntary Exile into the distant country of forms. In this state, we identify with the material world and forget our true spiritual nature, leading to anxiety, fear, and a relentless search. This exile ends when we reach a turning point-often by hitting rock bottom-where the superficial pleasures of the world no longer satisfy, sparking the first remembrance of our true Home.
Part II introduces the book's central metaphor, inspired by mystic Joel Goldsmith: our human life is but a brief Parenthesis in Eternity. Our suffering arises from mistakenly identifying with the temporary contents of this parenthesis-our body, history, and roles, which form a fabricated self-instead of the eternal, infinite Consciousness that contains it. Domé provides the gentle art of self-observation without judgment as the key tool to dismantle this false identity. This section also exposes the unwritten rules that bind us to illusion: the belief in duality (good vs. evil), the mirage of lack, and the tyranny of psychological time.
Part III, The Luminous Path of Return, offers practical principles for awakening. It emphasizes the transformative power of conscious intention, which shifts the fundamental motivation from the ego's What can I get? to the Spirit's How can I serve?. The book details key spiritual principles, such as Contemplative Prayer (which is an act of recognizing Truth, not of asking), the principle of No-Power (ceasing the struggle against external shadows), and living by Grace, the spontaneous flow of good. It presents the Pilgrim's Jewels radical forgiveness for personal liberation, conscious gratitude to attract abundance, and the practice of feeling from the end to manifest reality.
Part IV, The Celebration of the Authentic Self, describes life lived from an awakened state. This new identity is symbolized by the prodigal son's restored attire: the best robe represents the Consciousness of Unity, the ring on the finger signifies recovered spiritual authority, and the sandals on the feet symbolize the ability to walk in the world without being of the world. The book culminates with the Feast of the Awakened Soul, a state of enjoying true abundance beyond material wealth, profound healing of body and mind, and relationships transformed by unconditional love. The final conclusion is that the search is over; the Home we always longed for is who we already are.
Part II introduces the book's central metaphor, inspired by mystic Joel Goldsmith: our human life is but a brief Parenthesis in Eternity. Our suffering arises from mistakenly identifying with the temporary contents of this parenthesis-our body, history, and roles, which form a fabricated self-instead of the eternal, infinite Consciousness that contains it. Domé provides the gentle art of self-observation without judgment as the key tool to dismantle this false identity. This section also exposes the unwritten rules that bind us to illusion: the belief in duality (good vs. evil), the mirage of lack, and the tyranny of psychological time.
Part III, The Luminous Path of Return, offers practical principles for awakening. It emphasizes the transformative power of conscious intention, which shifts the fundamental motivation from the ego's What can I get? to the Spirit's How can I serve?. The book details key spiritual principles, such as Contemplative Prayer (which is an act of recognizing Truth, not of asking), the principle of No-Power (ceasing the struggle against external shadows), and living by Grace, the spontaneous flow of good. It presents the Pilgrim's Jewels radical forgiveness for personal liberation, conscious gratitude to attract abundance, and the practice of feeling from the end to manifest reality.
Part IV, The Celebration of the Authentic Self, describes life lived from an awakened state. This new identity is symbolized by the prodigal son's restored attire: the best robe represents the Consciousness of Unity, the ring on the finger signifies recovered spiritual authority, and the sandals on the feet symbolize the ability to walk in the world without being of the world. The book culminates with the Feast of the Awakened Soul, a state of enjoying true abundance beyond material wealth, profound healing of body and mind, and relationships transformed by unconditional love. The final conclusion is that the search is over; the Home we always longed for is who we already are.
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