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s0.484,1.08,1.08,1.08c0.596,0,1.08-0.484,1.08-1.08S17.401,6.116,16.804,6.116z\"><\/path><\/svg><span class=\"wp-block-social-link-label screen-reader-text\">Instagram<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Out of the blue,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>you&#8217;ve always been You.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a re-source of clouds to see what makes you\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">The best way to not be still and quiet is to try not to be still and quiet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Is it quiet before I try to make it quiet?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">It\u2019s totally quiet before I try to make it quiet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Stillness is still whether the mind is still or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The energy of thought,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>when you\u2019re really listening,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>you can actually feel a thought trying to arise before it actually turns into a thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cause thought after all is just energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Throughout our life we get an endless amount of opportunities to experience what is as it is,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">before any story about It.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">And no matter what it is, when it is as It is,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">it\u2019s not a problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Until the mind talks to itself about any event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A thunderbolt strikes out of the blue,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here comes the jolt of Pikachu!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gotta catch &#8217;em all I like Pikachu too,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I want what&#8217;s real and true,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I choose you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gee I wonder then what makes you\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You \u26a1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">To start to be disturbed is when we start to look underneath the veil of things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">You start to engage in deep forms of spirituality,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">spirituality that really aims at waking You up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So this unconditioned state of consciousness is something easy to miss because there\u2019s no real content to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s nothing to grab hold of and yet there It is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s listening, it\u2019s just watching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s not commentating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">There is something that begins to express itself through your humanness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">When it\u2019s no longer being confined, compressed, held down by the mind\u2019s ideas, by the world of delusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Have you ever felt like there\u2019s something within you That wants to come out?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In that unconditioned consciousness,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>there\u2019s no commentator,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>there\u2019s no interpreter of the moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that\u2019s the first foretaste of our true state,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>our true nature in That unconditioned state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">The spiritual awakening is to know directly, experientially know what we are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">When you know what you are, you know what your neighbor is, you know what the person across the street is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">When you know what-you-are, you know what everyone was no matter how far back in time you go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Awareness is effortlessly functioning right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">If you want to become less aware than you are right now, you wanna know how to do it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Just try to become less aware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Everybody would be well served,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">no matter if it looks dualistic, nondualistic, direct path, gradual path,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">whatever it is,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">getting in touch with what inspires you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Getting in touch with something deeper than the mind, getting in touch with that inspiration, with That heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you stop you\u2019ll see yourself everywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s the spiritual awakening,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>that\u2019s the awakening,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>to see yourself everywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not your ego-self, not your personality-self, not that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the essence of You.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Feel It.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Let that start to become at least part of your guidance, certainly your motivation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">That is its own discipline, that\u2019s true discipline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">The discipline of paying attention enough so you\u2019re living an inspired life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a great teaching to be in the now but it\u2019s not great if we misunderstand what\u2019s being talked about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As if the now is something between the past and before the future in this moment that I hold onto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s not something we hold onto or try to be in, it\u2019s something we let go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Part of this journey is the willingness to be really honest with oneself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">I\u2019m not talking to the ego that it needs to do something or doesn\u2019t need to do something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">I\u2019m speaking to any sense of a separate self.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Spirit is speaking to spirit here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Reality is speaking to Reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is it not true that awareness is already present, fully functional before you even try to improve upon it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stillness is already here before I seek it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peace is already here before I look for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And Awareness is already fully present before I try to be aware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">And mysteriously,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">when there\u2019s nothing in you that\u2019s trying to succeed anymore,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">all there is,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">is the success of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">All there is,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">is your own nature,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">spirit awake to itself shining forth all the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Is it not true that before you even try to become quiet,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">is quietness already present?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">What about stillness that we already seek in meditation,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">is it not true that stillness is already present?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">And you just be quiet and listen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">And You sense stillness is already present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">How is it that I unenlighten myself moment-to-moment?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">That\u2019s the Real question, not some<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">&#8220;How do I sustain some awakening experience that I had at some point in time?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">That question is not a useful question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">It\u2019s a common question, but it\u2019s not useful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Enlightenment is natural, that\u2019s why they call it the natural state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And everybody goes, \u201cHow do I get to the natural state?!\u201d It\u2019s like someone saying, \u201cHow do I relax?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whatever you&#8217;re doing, don\u2019t do that anymore, that\u2019s how you relax\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>including trying to relax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">The idea is not to get rid of an egoic &#8216;me&#8217;,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">the idea is not to be suckered in by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">As long as you\u2019re trying to get rid of it, you\u2019re trapped by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">The only thing that tries to get rid of a me is a me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Unconditioned consciousness, it could care less.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ideas themselves are totally foreign to this unconditioned state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ideas can arise from it,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>just like ideas can arise from the egoic &#8216;me&#8217; conditioned state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So ideas can actually arise from the unconditioned state,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the difference is they\u2019ll never be believed to be the Truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">So this game of illusion is very magical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">If you understand this game,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">if you\u2019re willing to understand this game,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">if you\u2019re willing to see it,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">cause it\u2019s seeing the nature of illusion that stops you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">The best way to get trapped by illusion is to try to escape it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As long as you&#8217;re running toward something and away from something,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the game of illusion continues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The game of illusion doesn\u2019t care what you\u2019re seeking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It doesn\u2019t care if you\u2019re seeking a million dollars, great recognition, to be loved,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>or to be enlightened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">The best way to stay trapped in who you imagined yourself to be is always trying to be somebody else different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Something different, something better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Maybe it\u2019s more spiritual, more enlightened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Maybe it\u2019s actually less spiritual, less enlightened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">There is no such thing as a true thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">There are truer thoughts and less true 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action becomes much clearer when you realize that to function from wholeness,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>we can\u2019t be functioning from a place of self-interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When we function from a place of self-interest,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>we\u2019re functioning from a place of self-division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019re functioning from ego.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">If you really look at the nature of your own Self,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">it will bring you into stillness cause you\u2019ll realize you get simple enough you can see that almost everything you think you know about yourself,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">is contained in thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">It\u2019s just thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first thought is always &#8216;me&#8217;,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and then the &#8216;me&#8217; talks to itself about its relationship with the moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So it\u2019s like an imaginary character having an imaginary relationship with what is,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>which is called suffering or what sages and sages have called the dream state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">If you do a little experiment and notice what disappears when you stop thinking for 5 seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Just for 5 seconds, you\u2019re looking into the real nature of your Self.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">What am I without referring to a thought to tell me who I am?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Well, it all disappears, does it not?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Almost every human being you meet has the \u2018I\u2019, which belongs to our existence, completely mixed up with their \u2018me\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I believe this. No, your me believes that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think this. No, your me thinks that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wants. No, your me wants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I is happy, I doesn\u2019t want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Me always wants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Plants desire sun and rain and soil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">When they don\u2019t get what they desire, they die, they wither away and that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">So life in many ways runs on desire,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">not on egoic desire,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">but Life\u2019s desire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even biologically we\u2019re hooked up so that when we move from wholeness or truth,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>it feels good in our organism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To be Whole feels good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">What is this \u2018I\u2019?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">The \u2018I\u2019 is not the \u2018me\u2019,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">the true \u2018I\u2019 is what is watching the \u2018me\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">The true \u2018I\u2019 has no form, no shape, no color, no smell, no taste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">The true \u2018I\u2019 is all transcendent consciousness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">It\u2019s not your \u2018I\u2019 or my \u2018I\u2019,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">it\u2019s thee \u2018I\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">I am that I am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If we\u2019re functioning from a nonegoic place, what is life desiring right now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is life wanting right now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where is life moving right now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then you see it,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>you feel it,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>you put yourself in harmony with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And when you do you,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Life gets magical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">When your \u2018I\u2019s are truly open, you know the expressions may differ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Some are big, some are small,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">some are noticed, some are unnoticed,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">some have immense impact, some have less impact,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">but the essence is exactly the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is stillness amidst the chatter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is silence amidst the noise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has no form to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has no idea to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s just a subtle, sometimes strong, but a sense of presence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s just there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">When you look inside and you don\u2019t find yourself, that itself is the finding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">You have found what-you-are, when you look in and don\u2019t find.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">You have found your own self-luminous quality,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">infinite consciousness,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s totally natural for you to perceive All is one, that\u2019s what&#8217;s natural.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everything else isn\u2019t so natural, it feels natural because it\u2019s common.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At some point, you realize in retrospect how much effort it took you to continually perceive division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">A good indication that you have stumbled upon the beautiful truth is that inside you you have become a lover of what is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">A lover of what is-ness, no longer a lover of what could be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">What could be stops interesting you as soon as you find your true nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It sounds simple until you find the truth really is a lover of what is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is could be rotten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is could be sickness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Old age, death, decay, being cold, being hungry, being disagreed with,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>but still the true lover is a lover of what is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">In the actual instant of what is,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">without referring to thought,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">there is no commentary,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">there is no commentator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">In that perception, you begin to see through your own experience for yourself that there isn\u2019t a problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">There can\u2019t be a problem unless the mind is believed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Without referring to a thought&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are you a man? Are you a woman?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are you a human being?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are you good? Are you bad?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are you indifferent?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are you worthy? Are you unworthy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you have to think about it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or does all that disappear if you\u2019re not thinking about It?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Looking within doesn\u2019t mean see if you can find yourself,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">or something called the Truth, or the Divine, or God as if you were looking around inside for something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Looking within means something more like stop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Stop at the boundary between looking in and looking outside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you understand looking within doesn\u2019t mean looking into your inner environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s a time and a place for that of course and a usefulness for that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But that\u2019s not where we\u2019re gonna find the Truth of what we are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">The most significant thing about stillness isn\u2019t that there&#8217;s just the experience kinesthetically and psychologically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">The most amazing thing about stillness is you lose your whole self.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">The whole identity is only in thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Your worldview is just thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With anything that\u2019s happening,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the &#8216;me&#8217; or the &#8216;I&#8217; is constantly commenting on what it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is it good? Is it bad?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do I agree? Do I disagree?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How do I attain that? How do I get rid of that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Right up to I am enlightened to I am not enlightened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">It\u2019s only through the mind talking to itself about what is happening,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">or what has happened,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">or what may happen that causes this psychological phenomena called suffering or stress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Awakening isn\u2019t about a better version of \u2018me\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s the great relief of realizing that essentially you\u2019re not defined by \u2018me\u2019,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>or an ego, or an exterior, or by<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">There\u2019s always the next thing that\u2019s happening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Sometimes the next thing your mind says is good or not good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Either way, none of the thoughts about what\u2019s happening have any truth to them whether they\u2019re positive or negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">What\u2019s happening is just,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">what\u2019s happening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking within means don\u2019t look outside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it also means don\u2019t look inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You always find something when you look inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You\u2019ll find a thought, you\u2019ll find a feeling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To look within actually means to stop looking without.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Stop right in that boundary between inside and outside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">So you\u2019re not searching for something on the outside and not searching for something on the inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">As soon as you stop at the boundary, then inside and outside stop making sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">That\u2019s what looking within really means.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is very telling what we think as news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is worthy to communicate to the populace,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>are the absolute worse things that happened today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s very telling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s very indicative of how egos bond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">You realize everybody\u2019s bonding in pain,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">in some sort of trauma, or a bad story, or working something through, that\u2019s what brings people close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">And the more awake we get, those same events aren\u2019t what bring us close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Egoic consciousness,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">it\u2019s held together through a certain sort of conflict and mutual suffering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Now what happens when we start to wake up from that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">When we start to realize that is not who and what I am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">That\u2019s not who and what you are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">That\u2019s not who and what we are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">We all want to feel better, we\u2019re hooked up that way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">But when it\u2019s no longer the sole driving force, when this other thing comes into our consciousness, it\u2019s that impulse towards what\u2019s true\u2014what\u2019s Real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">That\u2019s a different impulse you see?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let me look right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That thought, is that thought true, is it real?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is who I become when I believe this thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it\u2019s innocent, there\u2019s no blame in it, it just happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the seeing of it,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>is the acceptance of It.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And you\u2019re back in harmony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">One of the disconnects in the mind when you really see,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">\u201cBut everybody\u2019s awake, why are they pretending?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Everything is awake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Everything was awake from the very beginning<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">\u201cBut why is the world pretending to be asleep?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;re taught be this way, be that way, stop doing that, do this\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;re taught all that stuff but we&#8217;re not really taught of like,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Gee, maybe you could treat yourself a little nicer.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe you could start there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What would that even mean to be kinder to oneself?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">If we\u2019re not at peace right now,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">if we don\u2019t recognize peace right now,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">we aren\u2019t going to get at peace tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">When we realize peace now, then the next moment looks like peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">And the next moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p 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It.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although you will instinctively fight it or resist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s no need to resist the resistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">The being-ness that is flowing in through their humanity,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">their humanness,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">it\u2019s this sort of beauty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">It often starts as moments of wonder or awe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">You know it\u2019s looking up at the night sky and realizing that really You don\u2019t know anything about it at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We find that at That stopping place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not outside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And when we stop at that perceived boundary, there\u2019s not really in and out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the direction was most concise, it would just be don\u2019t look outside, don\u2019t look inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">All is so well, you couldn\u2019t imagine how well it actually is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">The more terrified your egoic \u2018me\u2019 is,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">the more well it actually Is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Let go of trying to make it go in any way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Let go of controlling it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Cause that\u2019s where the piece that surpasses all understanding Is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">It feels like when you get tired of it you\u2019re doing something wrong or you\u2019re not getting it right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">But actually, getting tired of it is often what allows the letting go of it to happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">All is well, just remember that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Especially when it\u2019s Not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">We act from a place of peace, which is a place of nondivision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">We respond to life from that place, we move from that place, and we\u2019re motivated from that place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">It doesn\u2019t mean You just sit on your couch going,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">\u201cI\u2019m at peace.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">That\u2019s a false peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To be loving isn\u2019t to be perfect, it\u2019s to be connected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s to be residing in the humble heart, okay with your imperfections as well as others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not being arrogantly attached to perfection and not dismissing your own responsibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Your mind knows you better than you know You.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">It&#8217;s constantly on a fishing expedition to hook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">It knows exactly what idea to drop into consciousness that the mind bites on and says,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">\u201cYeah, that\u2019s what I need in order to awaken.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">That\u2019s the seduction, that&#8217;s the dance of Maya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re pushing to have some spiritual breakthrough, it really gets in the way of the breakthrough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reality has to exist in every single moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So if we\u2019re pushing for something to happen in some other moment, we\u2019re 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