I had the challenge and joy to help create a perennial diary based on guidance received by Eileen Caddy. This resulted in Opening Doors Within being published by Findhorn Press in 1986.
The following is the Editor’s Foreword I wrote for that first edition:
In 1953 Eileen Caddy first began to receive personal guidance from a still small voice deep within herself, from a source she called the God Within.
The simple teachings she received over the years offer spiritual truth and vision, and insight into how to live a more happy, more meaningful, more fulfilling life. It has been her guidance which has served as the source of inspiration for the creation and development of what became the Findhorn Foundation, the international spiritual community and holistic education centre in Northern Scotland.
This is a book of spiritual values—love, joy, peace, gratitude, unity. Readers will find these and other themes echoing over and over again throughout the book, for, in the words of Eileen’s guidance, “Very gently and very lovingly I go on and on reminding you of the things that do matter in life, until eventually they become a part of you, and live and move and have their being in you.”
This perennial diary offers inspirational messages of practical and compelling guidance in simple, direct prose, with specific suggestions for daily spiritual growth and development.
Readers may wish to read each day’s message upon awakening to provide an overall direction for the day. Or to have family take turns reading it aloud at the breakfast table. Or to use it as the basis for a daily meditation. And to re-read it at bedtime to help put your day in perspective.
However you choose to use them, take these teachings into yourself, and carry them with you, day after day, year after year until ”they become a part of you and live and move and have their being in you” until they have done their silent and gentle and loving work of “Opening Doors Within.”
David Earl Platts
When doing book signings Eileen would write this dedication or similar in the front of the book. This one shows the dedication she wrote in my copy.
To David
May you enjoy this little book
as much as I do + may it bring
you great peace, love, joy +
unity as we link up with the
many all over the world each day.
We are One in God’s love.
With love & many blessings,
Lovingly,
Eileen
I focalised Communications and later became Eileen’s unofficial co-writer, producer, editor and residential workshop focaliser for guests from soon after I arrived, 1978 to 1986. Now retired.
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