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We can use the word self to mean two different things. It can be the enlightened self, the one who is seeing and being. Or it can be the unenlightened self, caught in the ego. Sometimes these two meanings are designated with a big S or a little s. If I was the one who …

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Living in presence means you can’t pretend. Actually that’s kind of the secret to everything. You can’t pretend, and if you want to live in presence, live in the present moment, live with your presence fully alive, it simply means that you can’t pretend. You can’t come at it through your fixed belief systems, so …

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Being united in mind body and spirit. That’s self-mastery that’s knowing who you are.

Should we have hope? Interesting question. The answer is yes and no. In one way it’s not because things are hopeless but because so often having hope creates division. Because hope means you think somebody else is going to do something about all the problems. If having hope means you’re just sitting around happy and …

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What does the universe want me to do? This has become the new biggest lie that we’re telling ourselves, and telling each other. I challenge you to to look a little closer at what it is we’re constantly saying, look how pervasive it is, and look how how easy it is for something like that …

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Non-duality needs to be a verb. The whole reason we have Advaita, Not-two, non-duality, is because the idea of one doesn’t work well. It’s so easy to take the idea of Oneness and turn it into a thing, turn it into a separate thing. I’m here and I’m trying to get to Oneness over there. …

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So here’s an interesting thing to think about: the difference between being and becoming. So much of our spiritual search these days seems to be about becoming. Becoming something. Becoming enlightened, or getting something. Getting prosperity, getting happiness or bliss. Humanity has been around for a really long time. For ninety thousand years at least …

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