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At the level of the essence
of the soul nothing's missing.
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:At the level of the existence of the
senses, things appear to be missing.
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:For millennia, people have
asked, what exactly is the soul?
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:Is there a soul? One of the great
textbooks that ever written,
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:if you could call it a textbook,
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:a great treatise by Aristotle
on De Anima, what is the soul?
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:If you've never browsed
that piece of work,
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:you find that he had taken all the
pre-Socratic philosophers and had studied
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:what the essence of our
existence was, the soul.
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:For the practical purposes
of our daily life,
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:I'm going to describe the soul
as the state of unconditional
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:love, SOUL.
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:It's a state of authenticity,
the state of our true identity.
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:Now,
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:people have debated whether there's some
sort of immortal soul or whether we're
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:just a physical body
and a brain, et cetera,
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:and this has been debated and going
on is there dualism, is there monism?
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:But for our practical purposes today,
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:I'm going to describe the soul as
the state of unconditional love.
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:So if you have something
write with and write on,
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:let's let's delve into this topic a bit.
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:Most of the time we're sitting
in a world of judgment,
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:now as the great pre-Socratic
philosopher, Empedocles,
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:who was the founder of the cosmogonic
cycle of the descent and ascent of the
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:soul into our physical existence and
the four elements, fire, air, water,
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:and earth.
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:And he described that there was nothing
but love or strife in our existence.
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:When we're in strife, the elements
are separated. When we're in love,
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:the elements are integrated. Well,
there's actually some wisdom to this.
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:Even though we may use different
language today. When we have love,
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:we're integrated. When we have
strife, we're disintegrated.
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:Let me give you an example.
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:Let's say you walk down the street
and you meet somebody that you
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:think is more intelligent than you.
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:More achieving than you in business
possibly, more wealthy than you,
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:more stable in relationship than you,
more socially influential than you,
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:more physically fit than you, or
more spiritually aware than you.
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:Anytime you look up to them and relative
to them, by the law of contrast,
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:minimize yourself,
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:you devalue yourself or minimize
yourself relative to somebody you've
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:exaggerated. Now, if you
get to know that individual,
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:you may not actually have
that as a second opinion,
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:but that may be your first opinion.
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:So anytime you exaggerate
somebody and minimize yourself,
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:you're not being yourself.
You're inauthentic.
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:And you're judging yourself and
judging them. So you're having strife.
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:And you're too humble to admit what you
see in them inside you so you have a
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:disowned part, and that disowned
part, that dismembered part,
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:that deflected part, that
emptiness or void inside you,
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:fractures you and fragments
you and disintegrates you.
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:If you go down and walk around and you
see somebody that you think is less
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:intelligent than you, less achieving
than you, less wealthy than you,
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:less stable in relationship than
you, less influential than you,
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:less physically fit than
you, less spiritually aware
than you, and minimize them
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:through judgment, and then exaggerate
yourself and puff yourself up,
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:again, you're now too proud to admit
what you see in them inside you.
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:And you have a disowned part and
a dismembered and deflected part,
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:and you feel void, emptiness.
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:That's why anytime you judge somebody
above or below you, exaggerate them,
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:minimize you, or minimize them and
exaggerate you, the moment you do that,
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:you have a disowned part, you
feel empty, you feel void,
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:you feel fractured,
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:and you exaggerate or minimize
yourself instead of be yourself.
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:Whenever you're not yourself,
and exaggerate, minimize,
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:you have an inauthenticity, and you have
a judgment on yourself. You're proud,
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:judging yourself superior,
superiority complex,
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:or shamed, inferiority complex,
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:and you exaggerate or minimize yourself.
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:Whenever you exaggerate
or minimize yourself,
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:Aristotle in his time said there was
the golden mean, the true virtue,
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:and then there were the vices
of excess and deficiency.
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:So when we perceive an excess or
deficiency of ourself, pride or shame,
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:exaggeration, minimization,
we have the vices.
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:When we actually have reflective awareness
and don't put people on pedestals or
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:pits and don't minimize ourselves
or exaggerate ourselves,
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:but just have a reflective awareness
and own what we see in them.
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:When you point the finger at
them, you got three back at you,
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:when you own it and have reflective
awareness and love that individual as a
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:reflection of yourself and love yourself,
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:but not go into pride or shame or
exaggeration of minimizations and just be
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:present with yourself,
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:you have a moment of authenticity
and a state of unconditional love.
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:And that authentic self is the soul.
The soul is your immortal self,
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:if you will, the immortal self.
Because when you're in the soul,
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:you maximize your influence in your
mind. You have noise that's dissolved.
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:See, every time you exaggerate or
minimize somebody and judge somebody,
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:you got noise in the
brain, static in the brain.
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:The noise to signal ratio, a
lot more noise than signal.
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:The signal is the wisdom of the soul.
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:The noise is all the
judgments that block it. See,
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:when you infatuate with somebody
and inject their values,
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:you cloud the clarity of
your own highest value.
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:When you judge somebody
looking down on them,
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:you also do it because you're
fragmented, you're disintegrated,
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:you're exaggerating and minimizing
yourself. You're not being yourself.
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:The moment you do, you end
up fracturing yourself.
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:In the ancient Greek philosophy
that was called heterogeneity.
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:When you bring yourself back into
balance, you have homogeneity.
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:And there's one verse many, fractured,
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:and there's a law where
the law of similars and
differences come into balance.
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:So the moment we actually have a pure
reflective awareness and we're authentic
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:and we have an unconditional
love for a moment,
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:and we're not trying to change them
relative to us from superiority,
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:or change us relative to
them with inferiority,
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:anytime you try to get others
to live in your values,
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:you end up having futility,
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:anytime you try to get yourself
to live in other people's values,
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:you have futility.
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:But the moment you unconditionally love
somebody and have equanimity and pure
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:reflective awareness,
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:there's no desire to change them
relative to you or you relative to them.
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:There's nothing to
change. And now your will,
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:your intention's matching what is,
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:which was called in the
ancient theology a divine will,
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:human will match divine will, and you
have grace, and you have inspiration,
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:and you have revelation, and you have
awareness, and you have the soul,
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:the state of unconditional
love. And because of that,
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:you maximize your brain function,
you maximize your business. See,
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:if you go narcissistic and don't
listen to your customers or employees,
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:they'll create unions and then they'll
have rejections and your business will
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:get humbled, and you'll
bring yourself back down.
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:All the symptoms in business are trying
to get you back to authenticity again.
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:And if you minimize
yourself and sacrifice,
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:you'll have anarch in your business and
you'll end up sacrificing your profits.
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:So minimization will make you,
I deserve better than that,
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:and you'll lift yourself up.
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:The moment you have equanimity and equity
between yourself and others and bring
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:those into balance and have
the soul, the authenticity,
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:all symptoms in our life,
physiologically, psychologically,
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:sociologically, theologically and in
our business are bringing us awareness,
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:trying to give us feedback to let
us know when we're not authentic,
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:not in the soul. So in that moment, we do,
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:we maximize our empowerment in
each of the seven areas of life.
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:We maximize our lasting
endurance in those areas.
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:Because we have fair exchange with
people and they want to continue to do
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:business with so we have
lasting effects. In fact,
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:when we live in our highest value and
we're most objective and most balanced,
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:because objectivity means balance and
neutral and whole, we own both sides,
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:we don't disown parts, we're full.
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:The Gnostics called that Pleroma.
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:When we are empty and we judge and
we have emptiness and missingness,
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:we have kenoma. The moment we end
up having pleroma and fulfillment,
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:we have fulfillment, we have
the soul, we have authenticity.
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:And when we live by our highest values,
our space and time horizons grow,
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:eventually we have goals that go beyond
our life because we tend to walk or
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:talk, we tend to wake up
our natural born leader,
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:we tend to have greater influence.
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:And anybody that exemplifies
authenticity is magnetizing,
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:charismatically other people who want
to help in the pursuit of whatever that
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:mission of that individual is. So living
authentically according to the soul,
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:the state of unconditional
love, the moment of love,
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:maximizes our potential in life. Are
we going to live there every day,
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:all day long? No. Is there
somebody that's done that? No.
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:Even though that likes
to market, you know,
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:people are sold by the opium
of the fantasy of that.
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:We are growing every day. We're
learning, we judge, we transcend that,
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:we integrate, we go onto the next thing.
We have moments of unconditional love.
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:We have moments of authenticity. But
what's interesting is inside our psyche,
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:whenever we exaggerate ourselves,
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:by the licensing effect we
also minimize ourselves.
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:But we're only conscious of
one and unconscious the other.
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:They're actually integrated at the time.
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:So even though we don't know
in our outer experience,
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:in our existential experience,
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:we don't know that we're having a balance
,there is still a balance going on.
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:There still is an equanimity,
therefore the immortal soul.
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:And the impact we have
by being authentic lasts.
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:So we have a an immortality quotient.
We have ideas that last beyond our life.
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:We have businesses that
live beyond our life.
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:We have wealth that lives beyond our life.
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:We have loved ones that
live beyond our life.
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:We have influence in society
that live beyond our life.
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:We have our physical body and the impact
it has had on the earth that lives
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:beyond our life. And we also have
in a sense our spiritual quest,
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:which is the pursuit of that.
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:And even though that may be an anxiety
that drives that for the fear of death,
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:in the reality we have the capacity
to leave an effect in this planet.
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:When we live authentically, we
have the most immortal effect.
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:So our path of the souls
immortality is the audacity and the
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:courage to be ourself. We can walk
on fire and we can do bungee jumps,
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:and we can do all kind of little
metaphors for having courage.
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:But the courage is the willingness
to walk in the path of the heart.
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:Courage comes from the root
cor, which means heart.
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:And the ability to do that is more
powerful than walking on bungee,
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:doing bungee jumps or walking
on fire. That's a metaphor.
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:But what's what's really powerful is
having the courage to be yourself,
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:the courage to take whatever you
perceive out there and own it,
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:and have reflective awareness. The
courage to have true intimacy and love,
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:which means you have no disowned parts,
whatever you see in the world out there,
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:you own, so you're a reflection. You
have a pure reflection awareness.
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:In that you have full consciousness,
you're mindful, you have satori,
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:you have moksha, you have
liberation, you have rejuvenation,
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:whatever you want to give it the name
over the years, this is the soul,
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:the state of unconditional love.
The ancient Greeks wanted to know,
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:is it a some sort of a thing that
is mortal or immortal? It's both.
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:In it's immortal aspect, we
have an unconditional love.
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:In it's mortal aspect we're judging,
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:but in the same time we're judging we
have the licensing effect of pairs of
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:opposites, like an entanglement
in quantum physics.
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:Is it heterogeneous or homogenous?
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:It's homogenous we're in a
state of unconditional love.
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:It's heterogeneous when we're
judging. Is it something that is
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:empowered or is it disempowered? If
we're in love, we have empowerment.
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:If we're disempowered, we're judging.
This is what Empedocles was saying.
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:Pythagoras said that the seed
of all the existence is our
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:soul. And that's where
our power is. In fact,
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:our greatest power's when we're authentic.
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:The magnificence of who we authentically
are is the most powerful state we can
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:be in.
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:So giving ourselves permission to be
there and to live there and to function
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:there is what I'm about. You know,
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:I've been teaching a
Breakthrough Experience program,
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:which is my signature program
I've done 1,196 times, and
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:I teach people how to access the soul.
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:I teach people with my Demartini Method
how to ask questions that dissolve
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:the judgments that bondage us,
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:because anything we infatuate or resent
occupies space and time in our mind and
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:causes the chaos, the heterogeneity.
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:The second we ask questions that balance
our mind and liberate us from those
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:judgments and get back to
the soul, we have our power.
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:So I teach people how to repower
themselves, how to live authentically,
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:how to prioritize their life,
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:how to give other people the opportunity
to do the same by delegating lower
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:priority things and to find people that
would love to do that so they can live
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:inspired by their path,
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:and to go and empower your
life in all areas of your life.
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:I teach people the science of that and
it's very inspiring to watch them wake up
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:their soul, their state of unconditional
love, their authentic self,
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:their place where they're actually
seeing the hidden order in their apparent
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:chaos,
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:and they're in a state of
grace and they're realizing
there's nothing to change
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:in others relative to them
or them relative to others,
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:there's something to be
grateful for in life.
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:Gratitude is the key that opens
up the gateway of the heart.
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:And in the heart is love. And when we
have an unconditional love in the heart,
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:we have an authentic state. We're
inspired. Our body becomes entheos,
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:the divine within,
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:and we end up having certainty instead
of uncertainty and we have presence
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:instead of living in futures and past
and wobbling with uncertainties and
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:vicissitudes of emotion. We actually
have an integration of all the parts.
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:And I think this is what
was stated even by the,
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:at the time of Pythagoras and
the pre-Socratics and Aristotle,
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:when they were talking
about the soul, and Plato,
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:they were describing the integration
of those parts. Empedocles said,
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:when you have fire and air,
you exaggerate yourself.
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:When you have water and
earth, you minimize yourself.
If you integrate yourself,
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:you have a perfect blend
and you have the ether.
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:And ether was the fifth
element called love.
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:So a state of unconditional love was
basically the essence of our existence and
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:the power of our life. And that's why
I call it the alchemy of the mind.
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:It's the integration of all the parts
inside ourselves and owning and realize
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:nothing's missing. When we have nothing
missing, we have fulfillment in life.
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:At the level of the essence
of the soul nothing's missing.
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:At the level of the existence of the
senses things appear to be missing.
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:The only things that appear to be missing
are the things you're too proud or too
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:humble to admit that you see in others,
but you don't see inside yourself.
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:As Schopenhauer supposedly stated,
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:we become our true self to the degree
that we make everything else ourself.
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:Who's to say where the
boundary of human beings are?
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:As Stephen Wolfram says that the entropy
and the in physics is nothing but the
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:boundedness of our own
computation and awareness.
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:If we are fully aware and realize
that everything micro and macro,
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:subatomic and astronomic is
really an aspect of ourselves,
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:then we have fulfillment and realize
that we're all the above
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:There's no separation.
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:As Schrödinger said in
his book on one Mind,
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:he said that there may just be one mind
and all of us are participating in one
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:giant, magnificent mind.
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:And we individualize ourselves while
we're going to the heterogeneous aspect of
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:judgment. But in a moment of
unconditional love, there's no separation.
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:We've extracted space and time out from
the mind and gotten present. Anyway,
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:I just wanted to take a few moments
to go over the soul
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:the state of unconditional love, the
place where you're most authentic,
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:and just have a dabble in that topic and
let your brain get fried a little bit
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:on that topic.
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:But just know that anytime you actually
see another individual and you look
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:inside yourself and you realize
that what you see in them is you,
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:and then you end up loving
them and loving you,
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:and you realize there's
nothing to fix or change,
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:and you see the hidden order in your
life, you're now expressing the soul,
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:the namaste of the Indian mystics, the
divine in me honors the divine in you.
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:And that's probably the atma of the,
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:that's where we have
the greatest atmospheric
awareness, the overview effect,
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:we realize it's neither positive nor
negative. It's neither good nor evil.
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:It's beyond judgment. It's
beyond the pairs of opposites.
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:In that state is we have the soul.
The moment we go down in there,
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:we have the agent of the soul, as Meister
Eckhart said, the agent of the soul,
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:which is the mind, which senses
things and motors things,
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:receives and broadcasts and assumes theres
separation between self and other and
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:division and heterogeneity.
And that's when we judge.
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:So our judgments let us know what
we haven't loved and give us another
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:opportunity to awaken the new questions
in our mind to become fully aware so we
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:can transcend the judgment
and return to love.
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:Marianne Williamson talked about in her
book many years ago, returning to love.
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:And I think that's the
essence of our existence.
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:That's why I created the Demartini Method.
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:And I teach it in the Breakthrough
Experience, to give people the science,
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:a reproducible, duplicatable
science on how to do that,
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:so they can walk a path of authenticity
and give themselves permission to shine,
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:not shrink. In quantum physics,
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:if we take light and divide it up
into particles and antiparticles,
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:the particles and antiparticles
are like our judgments.
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:And when we integrate them and
reunion them to put them into light,
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:we have enlightenment. And that's a
great metaphor for our own behaviors.
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:It's the alchemy of the mind and
it's designed to make us enlightened.
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:Enlightened is full awareness. And
we're not asleep. We're not unconscious.
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:We're fully conscious. When
we're infatuate somebody,
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:we're conscious of the upsides,
unconscious of the downsides.
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:We resent somebody, we're
conscious of the downsides,
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:unconscious of the upsides.
When we love somebody,
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:we're fully conscious of both sides
within them and ourselves simultaneously.
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:Wilhelm Wundt says that the
synchronicity and the simultaneity of all
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:complementary opposites, was love. And
that's the essence of our existence.
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: That's the soul. So
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:that's why I want people to come
to the Breakthrough Experience,
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:because I can teach them the science,
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:how to awaken the soul and how
to have love for their lifek,
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:themselves and others. And I don't
know, at the end of your days,
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:I've asked millions of people,
if you had only 24 hours to live,
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:what would you do with your life? And
they said, if I had only 24 hours to live,
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:I'd go to the people that've
contributed to my life and I'd say,
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:I love you and thank you. Well, we
don't know when our last 24 hours is.
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:So it's wise to just go ahead and find
out who that is and say thank you,
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:I love you. Grace and love is
what this whole thing's about.
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:Our authentic self comes from that state.
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:And that's why I teach the Breakthrough
Experience and the Demartini Method,
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:to help people have a science to reproduce
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:that no matter what's going on in life,
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:there's nothing your mortal body can
experience that your immortal soul can't
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:love. There's nothing that you
can experience that you've judged,
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:that can't be transcended
and appreciated and love.
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:The quality of your life's based on
the quality of the questions you ask,
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:if you ask questions that
liberate yourself from the
judgments and wake yourself
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:up to see both sides
simultaneously, you can love it.
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:And anything you don't love is
going to run your life until you do.
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:And anything you don't love is going to
create entropy and aging to let you know
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:you're not loving to catalyze
you to look again and wake up
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:that part of you that
knows. Gnosis, knowledge,
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:true knowledge is love. When
you're infatuate or resentful,
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:you don't know the person, you're
missing and you're unconscious of parts.
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:But when you actually love and have
reflective awareness and authenticity,
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:you get to have the immortal state,
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:the one that's not entropicly aging,
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:the negentropic Schrödinger love
equation, in his book, What Is Life?
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:So I just wanted to take a few moments
to talk about that and encourage you to
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:come to the Breakthrough Experience
so I can help you with my science,
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:awaken that state where you're
actually empowered in life
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:instead of disempowered. Because anything
you don't own in the world around you,
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:within you, disempowers you.
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:So come to the Breakthrough Experience
and let me help you by showing you this
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:science, that science you'll
use the rest of your life.
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:I guarantee it'll be useful the rest
of your life. It's a tool that'll last,
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:it has a thousand applications,
it'll change your life if you use it.
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:So come to the Breakthrough Experience.
Let me teach you the Demartini Method.
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:I've been working 51 years on the
development of this to help people master
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:their lives and maximize their
potential life. As Aristotle said,
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:there's actuality and as Maslow said,
self-actualized, and there's potentiality.
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:And when we get to maximum
potential, we actualize our soul.
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:I want to show you how to do that.
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:How to have a maximized potential to
actualize your soul so you can live an
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:actual magnificent life, not
just a reality of survival.
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:So this is my message on the soul
today. Hope you enjoyed it,
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:You might have to watch it a few
times. Thank you. I love you.
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:See you at the Breakthrough Experience.