Coming Home
Awakening through the stillness into the living light
by Fi Sutherland
"In following Fi’s story, and the wonderful teaching on how to access our heart and Divine nature, we begin to uncover our own story of wholeness and connection. Fi is one of those who guides us to question our limited reality, and open to our spiritual nature, which is a birthright of all humanity, and all of life."
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(Foreword by Meredith Little, Cofounder, School of Lost Borders)
Supporting a Spiritual Journey
To navigate and survive in the world, we create the ego. Functioning like a mask, the ego is our protective shell with which we meet external reality. This is healthy and necessary up to a point—until we believe the mask is all we are. When we realise that there is more to us than the mask, an inner search begins. “Who am I?”
Personal and spiritual development is about seeking the answer to that question by slowly letting the ego mask fall away, step by step. At the same time, we connect with our authentic Self, which supports the inner enquiry. This connection may take us beyond the ego and its worldview into a new and wider understanding of ourselves and life.
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Coming Home: Awakening through the Stillness into the Living Light tells the story of my spiritual awakening out of the ingrained behaviour patterns, thinking, and habits that controlled and directed my life for thirty-eight years, until my first wake-up call at a cinema in 1995. Through the book's five sections and twenty-five chapters, I take the reader on a journey of increasing self-awareness and insight activating the mind, body, spirit, and heart. This knowledge, and the practices and exercises included, are based on my personal experience of awakening, my training as a therapeutic counsellor, my clinical observations with clients, and my awareness of others as a meditation and spiritual teacher.
Fi is intervied by Kim Macleod of IndieAuthors World about her book
In this short video Fi speaks about her book
BOOK REVIEWS
JULIE HERRON, NEW ZEALAND
Fi's empathy and honest desire to share what she knows for the good of all people is very evident. I think Fi's book is uniquely different from many other books about how people can improve their lives. So many books tell us what to do, or what we can try, without actually referring to the author’s personal experience that makes the practices lived and real. This is where Fi's book is different. Throughout the book Fi refers to the lived and real. This makes the book accessible and appealing to: the general audience who wish to improve their life; those who read it as a fascinating autobiographical work; and, those who are seeking an understanding and a guide to awakening.
ELIZABETH PAWLEY
A treasure chest of love, wisdom and light – Coming Home is like opening a treasure chest of love, wisdom and light, that quietly weave its way into your life as you read. Fi Sutherland's way of writing is engaging, informative and inspiring. She somehow finds a way to convey such complex and elusive things as the path to awakening with a simplicity of language and clarity of perception that can only have been uncovered through her own journey of lived experience. She conveys simplicity of truth, depth of wisdom and abundance of loving acceptance in all she writes, quietly inviting us to walk with her. Fi offers many beautiful practical exercises to further our spiritual practice. And there are so many pearls of wisdom embedded in this book that I know I will discover new gems on every re-reading. I imagine this book will offer inspiration to anyone on the path of the heart towards living a more enlightened life.
GILL HASTIE
Inspirational, insightful and motivational – Fi has lived a fascinating life and made many courageous decisions following her hearts call to awaken.
In Coming Home, Fi encourages the reader to reclaim their personal power and develop greater understanding of their authentic self by sharing her own personal experiences, inner wisdom and various supportive exercises. She teaches us to trust our inner voice. Fi not only explains the pitfalls of the conditioned mind she shares her insights into living from your heart. She challanges you to look into your own shadow and offers practical practices that will strengthen your own inner connection. Fi's beautiful perspective shines light into areas such as forgiveness, anger and projection. Tricky subjects are discussed with clarity, offering strategies and explained using personal examples. I have had many "penny drop" moments whilst reading this book. Coming home has helped me and I am sure it will help all those who read it. I will definitely read it again and know I will learn something different each time I do. It is a fabulous book that I encourage you to read.