Chapter Five

Listening to Your Dreams

Not So Big Garden Path

When you eventually see through the veils to how
things really are, you will keep saying again and again,
"This is certainly not like we thought it was!"
-Rumi

Chapter Five - A Message from Sarah

Listen to Sarah Susanka introduce you to Chapter Five of The Not So Big Life. For a written version, see Chapter Five Introduction.

Chapter Five - Group Discussion Forum

Join your fellow readers in an ongoing discussion of your experiences, questions and understandings as you continue the journey to a Not So Big Life. Become a member of The Not So Big Life Community, and enter the Chapter Five Forum.

Chapter Five - Your Turn and Exercise

For those readers that wish to print materials for use in their Not So Big Life Notebook, we include "Your Turn" and "Exercise" in a printable document in PDF format. To access, you will need a PDF reader. To download free software, go to www.adobe.com.

Your Turn - Thinking "Outside the Box"
Exercise - Exploring Your Dream World
See >> Chapter 5

Chapter Five - Suggested References

Movies:

Movie - The Matrix
Movie - The Truman Show
Movie - Waking Life
Movie - Sliding Doors
Movie - Unknown White Male
Movie - Stranger Than Fiction
Movie - Bagger Vance

Visuals/Video:

Magic Eye Images allow you to see in three dimensions even though the image itself is printed on a two-dimensional page. A perfect analogy for what we can do with our lives - see in a new dimension without changing the content of what we do.
See the BALLS image. Also see the CUBES image.

You can also download .pdf files. For best results, print the images on glossy photo paper. See Magic Eye Balls PDF and Magic Eye Cubes PDF.

Fractal Images discussion - see Powers of Ten Video; also
see NASA Calendar Images
Whale discussion - see National Geographic - Masters of the Sea

Books:

- From A. H. Almaas

Diamond Heart Book III: Being and the Meaning of Life, by A.H.Almaas - see Diamond Heart III
Diamond Heart Book IV: Indestructible Innocence, by A.H. Almaas - see Diamond Heart IV

- From Coleman Barks

The Essential Rumi, translations by Coleman Barks - see Essential Rumi
The Illuminated Rumi, translations by Coleman Barks with illustrations by Michael Green - see Illuminated Rumi