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<strong>FREE</strong> <strong>YOUR</strong> <strong>TRUE</strong> <strong>SELF</strong>
<strong>FREE</strong> <strong>YOUR</strong> <strong>TRUE</strong> <strong>SELF</strong><br />
A Guide to Ultimate Freedom<br />
Translated from French by Alain Groven<br />
ANNIE MARQUIER<br />
Valinor Publishing
Design : Véronique Dumont<br />
Cover page : Véronique Dumont<br />
Illustrations : Véronique Dumont<br />
Photo : Martin Belleau www.imersa.ca<br />
Colour separation : Imprimerie Transcontinental - Gagné<br />
Translated from French by Alain Groven<br />
Copyright 2013<br />
Les Éditions Valinor<br />
C.P. 3725, Knowlton, Québec J0E 1V0 Canada<br />
Tél.: (450) 242-1961<br />
www.idp.qc.ca – editions@idp.qc.ca<br />
ISBN-13 : 978-2-923228-09-9<br />
Legal deposit - Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, 2013<br />
Legal deposit - Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, 2013
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS<br />
First, I would like to thank all the people to whom I owe the privilege of sharing<br />
some of their inner journey in the context of my workshops, and who have allowed<br />
me to witness the magnificent process of their soul’s awakening.<br />
I also want to thank those who have taken the time to review the<br />
manuscript and make detailed comments, especially Thierry Pasquier for his<br />
extensive editing, as well as Stéphane Richard.<br />
My thanks also to those who made the final corrections, Francine Laliberté,<br />
Éric Chevalier, Nathalie Jolicoeur and Réjeanne Nault.<br />
I also want to express my very special gratitude to Julie Nantel for her<br />
invaluable support throughout the writing of this book, and for the enormous<br />
amount of energy which she put into the presentation and in-depth review of this<br />
work.<br />
Finally, a heartfelt thank you to my daughter Véronique for her technical<br />
support in the final formatting and the cover page, and especially for the constant<br />
inspiration which she instils into my daily life.
To my Teachers,<br />
With profound gratitude<br />
and respect..
FOREWORD<br />
The white birch said to me: I am limited in my form, but not in my<br />
spirit. If you look at me closely, you will see God among my limbs,<br />
within my trunk, and then in my leaves. But your vision is blurred by<br />
what you see. What you see is like static that prevents you from truly<br />
seeing. As long as you haven’t let go of your attachment to your<br />
individual specialness, as long as you haven’t thrown your whole<br />
being away to be swallowed by the stars, as long as you think you can<br />
still exist, what you see is just a reflection of your own lack of<br />
consciousness.<br />
To exist – there lies the great illusion. You do not exist, I do not exist,<br />
none of us exist. Only this consciousness of non-existence can allow us<br />
to really see. But then once we get to that point, there is no one left to<br />
see, for between he who sees and that which is seen, there is no longer<br />
any distance: existence becomes simultaneous, common, and there is<br />
nothing left to see, nothing left to be experienced. What is left is ultimate<br />
freedom, the freedom to be and not to exist.<br />
Why should you want to live in separateness, at a distance from<br />
everything? To take upon yourself what belongs to the Universe? The<br />
Universe will not allow it. If you try to do that, you will lose yourself<br />
and spend your time in vain attempts to find yourself again. This will<br />
mean suffering, despair and death.<br />
And you will thus die many deaths, until the moment when, having<br />
given up everything which mattered to you, including your own sense<br />
of identity, you will rediscover... what I truly am as a white birch...<br />
within yourself.
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