All of these different stories we’ve been telling work into the story of healing because healing is very much a process of stepping out of your own way. This is an easy way for us to misunderstand the idea of spiritual healing because we think you can put your hands on somebody and heal them. …
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Have You Ever Experienced Unity
Have you ever experienced unity with other human beings? This is something that I just love working on because I love doing the Dances of Universal Peace. We get together in a big circle and we dance and sing together and move together. Human beings in a circle, we magically come into unity. You’ve probably …
If You See God
If you see God, then you know there is no God. If you see God, then you know that everything is God. That might sound a little confusing because it sounds like two different things, two different perceptions. But what matters is who is seeing. Once you know who is seeing, then you see that …
Each Time Humans Come Together
Each time humans come together, something really magical happens. And I mean, like, really come together. Human beings have this thing that we can do where we can actually communicate with each other, we can commune with each other, we can do things together. That’s why we’re so amazingly fabulously creative. We don’t even have …
Attaining Enlightenment Doesn’t Make Sense
So, attaining Enlightenment just doesn’t make any sense in the traditional way it’s taught to us. I’m talking about the idea of becoming enlightened, attaining some amazing state of bliss that’s above and beyond everybody else, stepping out of the wheel of life so you’re not incarnated anymore. All that. “Becoming” something doesn’t make any …
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Look Who’s Nobody!
Sufism is a path of dissolving the ego, which is about becoming nobody. It’s not about becoming some big important thing. This is important to understand because it’s the number one way that Sufi practices can go wrong. We go wrong when we start thinking that our spiritual practices are about creating positive emotions and …
Thoughts Begin in Silence
In the Diamond Sutra, Buddha says, ‘Thoughts begin in silence’. It’s good to stop occasionally, pause and feel the beauty of what it is we’re looking for. Non-duality teachings can get very stuck in the head because what we’re trying to do is dismantle misconceptions we have about who we are and what life is. …
Nonduality isn’t a thing
Nonduality isn’t a “thing”… It’s an experience. So the question is: Can you experience this? Instead of, “Can you understand it?”
— The ultimate failure —
So here’s the cool thing about nonduality. No matter how hard you try to find yourself, you’re going to fail… because you are the one looking.
But it’s the ultimate failure that makes you drop everything and see yourself, be yourself, become yourself. So meditate a lot. Look inside yourself and contemplate who are you.
Who are you? Who are you?