Panache Desai - You Are Enough: Revealing the Soul to Discover Your Power, Potential, and Possibility

I T DOESNT MATTER HOW YOUR LIFE HAS UNFOLDED UP to this moment. I want you to remember this: every single morning, you open your eyes and win the megamillion-dollar lottery of being alive. With each second in the day, you are given 86,400 chances to choose differently than you have in the past. You are also given 28,800 breaths to act, think, and move from love. There is only ever one choice. Either you are living from your heart and moving toward your limitless potential, or you are continuing to live in fear and limitation.

When I entered this world and the doctors gave me that first slap, I had an appointed purpose to fulfill, as we all do. But as long as I resisted my design, as long as I tried to turn myself into something that I thought would be admired or loved by others, I could not fulfill it. It wasnt until I reached the depths of internal despair that I got in touch with the true reality that exists in and around us in every moment. In that surrender, I found the purpose, goodness, and connection that was my destiny.

Many traditions have a word for this experience: samadhi. Samadhi is the sacred remembrance of your Essential Self, which is one with God. It is knowing who you are, fully and authentically. It is an illumination, a recognition, a union. It is what we all crave at the deepest level of being. The desire for this union is that ceaseless internal hunger that keeps us searching externally for what paradoxically can only be found internally. Ive seen this search in the thousands of people who come to me frightened, angry, sad, addicted, and abandoned. My message to those desperately seeking solutions outside of themselves is that the search begins and ends with you.

I am here to empower you to find your Essential Self and claim your peace. Most important, Im here to ignite the remembrance that it already exists within you and help you become conscious of how a series of events and experiences have caused you to forget your own power, potential, light, and love.

At this point in the evolution of our species, I know samadhi is possible for everyone. Humanity is in the process of remembering; a collective awakening is being birthed in the world. And everything that is happening, politically, socially, environmentallyall the chaosis there so that individuals can remember and realize their authentic Essential Selves. In the wake of widespread cacophony, pretenses and egoic structures are falling away, unveiling the true reality of love, kindness, and human connection. No longer is enlightenment reserved for monks, masters, and gurus. In fact, the more you try to replicate someone elses spiritual practice or journey, the further you find yourself from the power, beauty, and authenticity of who you truly are.

Samadhi is counterintuitive to your operating system, because it is not a matter of striving, grasping, or achieving. It isnt bestowed upon you based on the books youve read, the courses youve taken, or the influence of the spiritual path youve chosen to pursue. You dont need to renounce the physical world, live in an ashram, or meditate three times a day. You can have a beautiful family, enjoy a glass of wine, watch your favorite TV show, relax in a cozy home, and appreciate all the other gifts of this world.

To reach samadhi, all you truly need is yourself.

Your experience on this planet is as unique as one of the billions of stars in the clear indigo sky, and yet I believe you and I are on the same journeyone in which the Essential Self is emerging into conscious experience, shifting out of separation and suffering into connection and bliss. Rich or poor, married or single, employed or unemployed, young or old, male or female, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Jew, or Buddhist, you are the soul coming to know the Essential Self as love.

Every single facet of your life contributes toward this greater evolution. The smiles that make your cheeks hurt. The continually griping employee or the controlling boss. The heartbreak that tries your very will to go on. Your children, siblings, parents, and grandparents. Even simple, mundane thingslike a favorite sweater or the sliced banana you eat for breakfast. All the contrasting elements of your existence: the myriad of colors, textures, scenarios, agonies, ecstasies, and routines. There is a cosmic purpose for each aspect, which is that you, in your finite physical body, come to know your unbounded Divine Nature.

The Divine or God, as I define and have come to know it, is an infinite ocean of love that is the source of all experience, one that doesnt require anything from usnot even our belief in it. Any definition actually serves as a limitation. However, to give you a signpost or to point toward infinity, the word Divine is the most expansive and least riddled with baggage. As you move through the book and encounter words like God or Divine, know that Im using them to continually point you back toward your limitless nature. Everything you experience, from your first precious breath until the moment you draw your last, supports you toward that end.

My intention in writing this book is to awaken you to the experience of the Divine Consciousness that is within you. I will help you accelerate your personal evolution, so that you will come to embody your limitless nature.

When you walk through this threshold, you will begin to experience life from the most expanded state possibleas though you are standing on a vast beach on the brink of sunrise, peaceful and serene. As the cobalt-black sky begins to fade, you know with certitude that you are not the darkness. Saturated purples, pinks, oranges, and yellows breach the horizon. The awe-inspiring palette of light and color climbs across the sky and stretches its arms toward you over the endless sea. Its coming to enfold you, to remind you. You are this light, and you are as powerful as the sun. Its radiance and purity are your divine birthright.

On those inevitable days when the clouds block your luminous nature, you will know that your Essential Self has not disappeared; it is only temporarily hidden from view. When violent thunderstorms arrive in your life, you will no longer be rocked from this solid foundation. No hurricane, earthquake, or tsunami will fool you into forgetting your Essential Nature.

Once you know yourself as the light, you will find that inner peace dominates every situation. Its not that you will never feel fear, anxiety, or anger, but you will no longer get lost in your pain. It will no longer drown out the light. You will clearly recognize it for what it isa temporary cloud passing in the sky. When you understand this hidden dimension of your humanity, you can empower yourself to accelerate your evolution. In this acceleration, you will discover where you are now and examine how you got there; you will learn a new way of relating to this world and the process through which that new way is made manifest.

A sacred universal energy permeates this book. This energy may act as a catalyst that stirs up old stories and beliefs, strong emotions, and physical, mental, and emotional wounds. Its purpose is to bring a lifetime of stored and blocked energy into harmony. There will be moments when you are overtaken by strong unresolved emotions and your tears will flow unchecked. Or you may even determine that none of this books content has any relevance to your lifethis is the most definitive red flag of them all. Persevere.