Among the beautiful spiritual traditions of

many Native American tribes, seven

directions are recognized. In addition to

the standard four are added Above (Sky)

and Below (Earth). The Seventh Direction

is the most challenging and rewarding of

any that we might take our attention:

Within.

If you allow it, this book can be your

framework to discovering the depth of this

wondrous and powerful direction.

This book can help you to do that only if you are willing to be guided not by anyone else’s words, but by your own heart.

The Quest

This book reflects my truth about a path to becoming what I believe all of us have come into life to be. I do not always succeed in living that path in the way that I intend. When I do not, my intention is to forgive myself and to do my best.

In truth, I never fail. I always succeed at receiving more lessons that will move me along the path to what I and, I believe, all of us have come here to become: Love. Just Love. It is my inner knowing, not just a belief, that we can all become what we came here to be. None of us is more or less deserving than anyone else.

Many of the ideas in this book are stated in the first person. This is done so that you can choose to believe or know the idea as your truth, or if it is something for you to edit to make your own.

The quest is to recognize myself as a fully loving being. This is my priority.

When this is integrated fully, then all virtues are embodied in my Being, in all my thoughts and actions…and all challenges, all experiences will simply be seen as opportunities to practice that love.

Throughout this book, when you see writing in italics, I am expressing a thought for you, the reader.

Non-italicized words are those you might choose to contemplate or edit. Most of these are written in the first person.

Also, the word “Self” is capitalized to indicate the Higher or Loving Self, as opposed to the worldly self.

Individually and communally, we are here in this life to do one thing and one thing only: We are here to realize the loving depth of who we are. Nothing else could be as important. For some strange reason that none of us can explain, most have chosen to expect that, despite their track record of failure, we should look to external sources to find happiness, wisdom and self-understanding.

Searching the external to find the internal is simply ignorant. We may reap some interesting seeds in that search of the apparently outside world. Pondering these seed thoughts from the perspective of the heart is important if we intend to unfold our Love most gracefully.

The puny mind tells one that the self is too stupid to know what is important, that one must look to religion, government, science and family to tell us what to think and how to behave. Some think that it is only through these sources that we can find happiness and contentment.

This book introduces the science of Heart-Intentional Self-Conditioning, a simple and highly effective method for uncovering your inner wisdom, calm and happiness: for unfolding your true Self.

It has nothing to do with self-hypnosis because you, the reader, decide from the heart level what you agree with and what you do not in the content of this book.

It is not brain-washing. You edit what does not work for you.

It is not a bunch of affirmations that I would ask you to just swallow. You edit brief ideas, one at a time, to fit who you are, to fit what your heart tells you is true for you.

I do not provide the secrets of the Universe in this book. It has always been an open secret.

What makes this book unique is that it takes single and related groups of ideas and chunks them down to simplify their understanding. We tend to read at a rate of 12,000 or more words per hour. Motivational speakers talk at a rate of about 150 words per minute. Talking for an hour, they give you about 9,000 words. Some minds can absorb that volume of words, but the heart generally wants more time between the ideas to tune into each one and feel it, especially if the ideas are spiritual in nature. The heart of this book chunks down ideas so that you can more deeply connect with them.

Please use the pause buttons here!

My intent is to provide a context and a tool for you to find your own deep truth. Nothing of this world could be as important. I invite you to make your self-discovery your highest priority. There is only one thing to be fully discovered: Love.

I see the process of unfolding our Love as having two major leaps. The first is in understanding and then fully living our beliefs. We cannot trust who we are and where we are going until we are willing to look inside. As we release the need to hold onto old, limited, unloving beliefs, we more and more integrate loving beliefs. This book was designed to help you do exactly that, and I am in the process of it. While I am clear on the intent to take the second leap, I do not pretend to have taken it as I complete this book. I am still in the process of making the first leap.

Once we build a high level of consistency in living loving beliefs, my sense of it is that we will then be ready to have no use for any beliefs. This is the second leap.

You are invited to use this unique tool for Self-understanding, calm and powerful happiness. Your choice to use it can be a powerful gift to your Self and your world.

Beliefs divide. Knowing acknowledges unity.

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“Belief is in the head, disbelief is in the head, trust is in the heart.

--Osho

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Forward: Is this Book for Me?

In less than two pages, right here, you may have a clear answer:

Please do not bother reading beyond this first paragraph if you have not yet come to a great place of clarity that life goes beyond simply either enjoying or tolerating it.* To do so would be like trying to eat a coconut before you had cracked it open.

It is important to have clarity about what the point of life is. If you are tuned in to the heart or spiritual part of you, then you know that you are here for a purpose. That purpose, for you, is more evolved than “Life is a bitch and then you die”. It is more evolved than “How can my life be always about pleasure rather than pain?”

If you have arrived at a place along your path where you know that you are here to integrate Love completely, then you know the heart of the big picture quest. You know what matters. You are developing more and more commitment to making the quest important in your thoughts, your words, and your actions.

* If you have not come to such a place, then I suggest that you first read my initial book, All That Matters.

In the process of inner exploration, we discover amazing things about ourselves: We can be extremely powerful, happy, loving, calm and contented just as we are. Yes, it is possible.

You will do this for yourself effectively if you are willing to….

• Be open. The mind tends to reject ideas which seem foreign to it. No matter how poorly some beliefs serve us, the mind tends to hold onto them tightly. There is a false security in sameness, even when the sameness is painful. Admitting that some old beliefs have not been worth holding onto takes courage. Please choose to be open.
• See yourself from the perspective of your heart. This is challenging for many, kind of like having someone suggest that you should hear with your nose. Please get past that. As you are open, this book will help you to do that.
• Create regular spiritual practice. The mind can appear to be quite devious. Your ego mind seems to think that Love is death. If the idea of spiritual practice is foreign to you, start with 10 minutes per day. You can even take weekends off, if you like. The key is to set up a practice and then keep your word about it. Doing more, building up more daily time is fine, but please start with something you know that you can and will do. Regular use of this book is a spiritual practice.

It has been said that knowledge is power. That is way off-path if spoken as a generalization. Communally, the vast majority of what we think we know is either lies or gross inaccuracies. The drama we suffer in our personal lives, as Don Miguel Ruiz so succinctly states it, is the result of believing in lies, mainly about our own selves.

And what is power, really? As used in this book, the term “Power” is expanded to be defined as “Loving Power”. The only real power is that which is based in Love. Anything based in domination, manipulation of another, greed, shame or guilt has nothing to do with having true power at all. These are all facets of weakness and of choosing to know something as true that is actually false. So let’s offer a reworked version of the knowledge-power declaration:

True and loving knowledge is true and loving power.

To get the most out of this book, your challenge is simply to have the courage to face yourself, every part of you. In remembering to tap your courage and your trust as you move through the challenges that you will be facing, you will make discoveries about yourself that will make Lewis and Clark look like shut-ins.

Are you willing to tap that courage and trust?

Selected pause sessions from the book:

A Part of Everything

There is a star that we see in the constellation Canus Major. It is the largest star that we know of, called VY Canis Majoris. To understand how large it is, conceptualize placing the center of this star at the center of where our Sun is located. If that could be done, the “surface” of the star would extend beyond the orbit of Saturn. This star is 7 quadrillion times the size of our Earth. Light travels at a speed of over 670 million miles per hour. Something travelling from the Earth at the speed of light would take 4,900 years to get to this star.

It is humbling to consider the vast size of the Universe.

It is empowering to sense that I am intimately entwined with it All.

Awareness

Awareness is seeing, feeling, tasting, sensing and trusting what is in front of me that is providing the opportunity to practice Love.

Fear is vigilance on the lookout for fuel for more fear. As one chooses to live in fear, one tends to receive more fear-inducing experiences as opportunities to see the insanity of ever living in fear. Sooner or later, we get it…we get what’s real: Love.

Another way of stating what awareness is: Vigilance on the lookout for Love. It is seeing the Love in everything.

What does not appear to be love is always an opportunity to respond with Love.

Exceptions to Choosing Love

Any apparent reasons to ever think or act in an unloving way are always an imaginary load of crap.

Awareness

Awareness is seeing, feeling, tasting, sensing and trusting what is in front of me that is providing the opportunity to practice Love.

Fear is vigilance on the lookout for fuel for more fear. As one chooses to live in fear, one tends to receive more fear-inducing experiences as opportunities to see the insanity of ever living in fear. Sooner or later, we get it…we get what’s real: Love.

Another way of stating what awareness is: Vigilance on the lookout for Love. It is seeing the Love in everything.

What does not appear to be love is always an opportunity to respond with Love.

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A note from Carlo Ami:

I guarantee that you will love this book. Spend a year or more working with it, keeping some brief passages with you for a day or more, in some cases. You will come to more and more trust in your own timing about when to move onto the next set of ideas.

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I am not in this to get rich. I am in it to serve and to grow. I am using the book myself to help smooth my own path. In the meantime, all I look for is a roof over my head, food on the table, and an occasional night out with my sweetie. If you like the e-book, you can order the hard copy, bindered version and save 20% on the bindered book. This is $7 discount, which basically repays your investment in the e-book.

Please note that 10% of the revenue from the sales of The Seventh Direction hard copy will go into a fund that will create books for free distribution. As I create sources of distribution for these free books, I will note them on this website.

All the Best to You,

Carlo Ami

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