Marianne Duffill Cox

Living Consciously Marianne Duffill Cox

This book is not meant to be a scholarly work. It is simply meant to be a gift to my family and friends. After reading and studying all my adult life, I only wanted to share some of what I have come to understand as true for me. If it helps anyone else see any truth, if it encourages anyone to think for themselves, or if it encourages anyone to search for their own truth, that will be good. My formal education is unimpressive- one undergraduate degree from an unimpres-sive university. I do not have a degree in philosophy, psychology, or religion, but I have read a lot on my own. Since my essays are in these fields, I have no expertise except from what I have read and from personal experiences. Sometimes personal experiences can be more valuable than anything else. Some of these essays I presented as sermons at Unitarian churches in Mari-etta, Georgia, and in Mason, Ohio, at lay-led services when the minister was absent. For this book, I have made some slight changes because of this. The theme that I am hoping to connect through all of these essays is one of personal and spiritual growth. I am hoping to both inspire you to seek and search to find your own path, to show you where my path took me, and some of what I have learned along the way. I also so hope to open you up to the possibility of where human conscious can go, and how you can increase the possibility of getting there. If this book achieves a small part of any of these things, for even one person, the book will have served its purpose and been worth the time and effort put into it. I give this book to you with all my love.