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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.