Anique’s Blog · Story · January 2011

How Kuan Yin chose me

Anique told this story in an interview with Szilvia Simon for the Light and Compassion blog in January 2011, ahead of her Kuan Yin workshop in Hungary. These are her own words.

When I first began to walk with the Goddess, I was living in a converted warehouse in Chinatown in Sydney. Each morning I would walk down the street to a lovely café to have my morning coffee and a bagel with cream cheese. I would have to walk through a small group of shops, and one of them sold all kinds of interesting things related to Chinese culture. The window of the shop was always full of things, all messy and jumbled together, and I would sometimes stop to look. One morning, as I walked by, I had not planned to stop, yet I turned and looked, and there, right in the middle of all the mess, was a very large figurine of Kuan Yin. I had seen pictures of Her before, but this sculpture was exquisite. Her face was painted in such a way that I felt she was looking right at me. I was mesmerised.

I walked into the shop and asked the shopkeeper how much she was. He was a tiny very old man, and he asked me why I wanted her. I said I did not know, but I felt that she was looking at me. When I said this, he smiled and said maybe I should take her and keep her for a week and then I could tell him what I thought she was worth. I was amazed and asked him why he was trusting me because I could easily take her and never come back. He just smiled again and said he trusted his intuition, and that his intuition told him to trust me.

I took the statue home and made an altar for her – my first altar to a specific Goddess. It was beautiful, right in the best sunny corner of my living room. I would sit for hours in my chair by the window, looking at her. After a few days, I began to feel a sense that she was alive, and I could hear her words in my heart.

She told me many things, the most important being that I had been given my voice to open women’s hearts. Not only that, she told me that She would be there always to support me and guide me. This changed my life.

The next day I went back to the little Chinese man and said to him, I don’t care how much she is, I must have her. I told him about what she had told me and he just listened and smiled. He then opened a small drawer under the counter and gave me a tiny replica of the statue made into a pendant. He told me that both came together and that the price would be $50. I knew that this was very cheap for both these items, and I also understood that he was more than just a shopkeeper. I bought the statue and the pendant and I have them still today.

So Kuan Yin chose me really, and over the years she has given me my Spiritual name, has healed my heart many times and has opened my heart to others in a most beautiful and magical way.

Anique Radiant Heart

Source: Szilvia Simon, “Interview with Anique Radiant Heart”, parts 1–3, Light and Compassion (HeartLight blog), January 2011. Read the original interview.