Choice, Chance & Circumstance: Six Days to Your Heart’S Desire
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Make the choice to read where miracles come from and why everyone can have them, regardless of their past.
Take the chance to follow the step-by-step guidance
Be amazed at the happy circumstances that result
Then you will know hearts desires and miracles are available whenever you desire them.
Diane Silverman
Diane cut her “wisdom” teeth on A Course In Miracles in 1978 and went on to create the Choice, Chance & Circumstance Seminar Series in 1986. In addition to being wife, mother and seminar leader, she founded and operated a small chain of restaurants, several factories, and an international trade company. She has been executive director of two major non-profit organizations, as well a national radio talk show host.
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Choice, Chance & Circumstance - Diane Silverman
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ISBN: 978-1-4525-7101-0 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-4525-7102-7 (e)
Library of Congress Control Number: 2013905060
Balboa Press rev. date: 04/23/2013
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
It’s All In The Mind
Chapter 1 What’s Real?
The Two Thought Systems Separation Versus Oneness
Jim’s Story
Sam’s Story
Diane’s Golf Story
How What’s Real
Found Me:
Chapter 2 Choice
Here’s Mary’s Story: Buttons Form Patterns
What Are You Putting Up With? The Putting-Up With Process:
The Best Of Everything
The Gift Box
The Gift Box Process
Lois’ Story
Karen’s Story
Hal’s Story
Chapter 3 Chance
Let Life Be A Gift To You
Be Happy
Nothing You Are One With Can Ever Hurt You
Being Happy – A Few Remarks
Marty’s Story
Chapter 4 Heart’s Desire
Discovering Your Heart’s Desire
The True Heart’s Desire: The Process
A Personal Heart’s Desire Story
The Difference And The Oneness
When To Use Your Gift Box
When To Use Your Heart’s Desire Process
The Key To Success In Both Processes
Chapter 5 Circumstance
Shampoo, Rinse, Repeat
Practice, Practice, Practice
Prologue
The Test For Truth
Our Exquisite Future
Contact Diane
In Loving Memory
Dr. Benjamin F. and Blanche Rudnick, my parents
and
Lena Rudnick, my paternal grandmother
24744.pngAcknowledgements
Thanks to Tori Marrin, B.J. Echolls and Jean Thibodeaux; my son Jay Silverman and my sister Marilyn Jackson, who lovingly read and critiqued my manuscript, several times over. They followed my request to help me keep the message simple and direct. Thanks also to my office assistant and editor, Mark Linder, for his expertise and attention to detail.
Thanks also to Tom McConnell, my partner. He made sure I remembered to eat, and he kept the house running when I forgot there was a house.
I am deeply appreciative that Dale Hoffman, George Davis and Leonard Solomon came into my life many years ago. They can’t possibly know what a difference they made then, or how that difference contributed to my knowing, someday, I would be able to tell you, the reader, that miracles are real, natural and available to all who desire them.
Introduction
IT’S ALL IN THE MIND
Between my highly impressionable years, from three to eight years old, my father used to tell me that what we experience in life is All in the mind.
When I was three years old I had no idea what he talking about. Around five, I sort of began to get the idea.
When I’d come home crying with a cut or scrape that was bleeding, while my Dad was getting out the Mercurochrome and band aid, he’d tell me to repeat three times, It don’t hurt.
Of course, I would keep crying and complaining, and he would keep saying, Come on just repeat after me, it don’t hurt, it don’t hurt, it don’t hurt.
I guess we’d argue a bit until I’d give in and say the words. By that time he had taken care of the wound and he’d ask, Well, how does it feel now?
Of course, the little arguing we did had completely taken my mind off everything else, so I had forgotten that it hurt in the first place, and I’d reply, It’s OK.
Then he would say, See, it’s all in the mind.
By seven or eight I was more involved in dancing and piano lessons than playing out in the street, so little bumps and scrapes were no longer an issue. By age eleven, my outdoor activities were focused on playing golf or swimming. Life became more social for me and our father-daughter conversations didn’t happen much. By that time, I was too egotistical to admit I didn’t already know everything there was to know about life, so I didn’t ask him to explain what he meant about, It’s all in the mind.
Like most kids, I found growing up very confusing. I longed for a way to make sense of life. From the outside, my life looked great. On the inside, though, I felt like a child with her nose pressed against a candy store window looking at the goodies inside. I wanted to get inside my life instead of being a spectator. I hated the feeling that life was just happening to me. I didn’t know where the good stuff, or the upsets came from. It all seemed to be outside my control, and even worse, it looked like everyone but me had it all figured out.
My father died from a heart attack when I was twenty three. I missed him and was so sorry I never took the time, nor made the time, to ask him more about his life, or life in general.
When I finally discovered what my father meant about the power of our minds, I realized he was talking about miracles. Until then, I didn’t think miracles were real or natural. I was very practical, and practical people don’t go looking for something they don’t believe exists. Thus, I wasn’t looking for miracles, and probably missed many opportunities to become enlightened about them and where they come from, until they came looking for me.
My first big lesson in miracles came in 1978, but I didn’t recognize it. A couple weeks later, the same exact opportunity knocked again, and that time I couldn’t ignore it!
In Chapter 1, you will