core principles of reaching your inner self:

a meditation for when you are lost

1. allow yourself to be empty
- it is then that you can measure the space inside yourself
- a scream and a count of its echoes is the best way to see how far you reach

2. begin to reveal yourself to yourself
- look in the mirror and take off your mask (it should look exactly like your true face)
- if it doesn't, repeat the process until your face, and the mask, and the mirror can smile in synchronicity
- kiss the mirror, kiss the mask, and in turn let them kiss your true face
(we are all here for you, there is no place we would rather be)

3. surrender to the total darkness 
- yes, it is there.
- keep one hand on the wall as you orbit the space
- start a map that uses no direction (you may leave a trail of crumbs)
- follow the echoes until you have returned to the source

4. find a place to rest
- there is a place within, a cave or shaded patch of soft grass where your breath and the wind are one (here is where you should sit)
- devote yourself to the beat of your heart, turn it into a song, let it echo, let it loop and culminate, let it fill you up until it is all you know
- get to know it better than the backs of your own hands 
- this is the source, this is the center, and you may return at anytime

5. bring yourself back to the surface
- bring awareness to your skin, that single layer of fragile tension, the only outline determining you from the light (the light will penetrate if you let it)
- allow the parts of yourself that you have carried with you from the source to gather in these fractures of light and the light will nurture them 
- as you float back to the surface, you will amalgamate
- try not to resist (there is no need to fear the parts of yourself you do not yet know, we are waiting to introduce ourselves to you)