00:00:00Intro
00:01:20What ”God Within” Actually Means
00:05:04The Same Awareness, Looking Through Every Face
00:07:28Living From This
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SOBRE ESTE EPISÓDIO
Every thought, feeling and memory we've ever had has appeared in something that doesn't itself come and go. In this episode, we turn attention back toward that awareness: the quiet presence that was there in childhood and is still here now, unchanged. We draw on the contemplative traditions that arrived at the same discovery independently. Then we look at what remains when the sense of a separate self loosens, and why the individual and the whole were never really two. We also look at how the sacred shows up in the simple fact of being aware at all, rather than in rare experiences.
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God is not with you. God is being you.
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Not a being watching over you from
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somewhere else. Not something separate
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that shows up when you pray hard enough
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or feel spiritual enough. The awareness
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that's aware right now. The thing in you
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that's aware of these words landing,
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aware of the quiet space behind your
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thoughts.
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That's it. That's what we're talking
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about. That's the whole thing.
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This isn't a theory. It's not a nice way
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to think about things to feel better.
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It's just what's actually true, whether
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you've noticed it yet or not.
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So, here's what we're going to do. We're
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going to look at what that actually
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means. And then we're going to look at
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what it looks like once you actually see
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it. Once it stops being an idea and
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starts being obvious. Let's start with
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what God actually is.
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If this kind of content resonates with
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you, come find me at luminaryflow.com.
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There's a free gift waiting for you.
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You'll find the link in the top comment
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below. Now, let's get back into it.
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Most of us grew up with some picture of
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God as a being, a person sort of bigger
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than us, somewhere else watching. And
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even people who ditch the word God and
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swap in something like the universe or
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source or energy, they're usually still
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picturing the same setup. Some force,
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some presence sitting out there separate
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from them that they're trying to reach
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or connect with or get in line with.
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Same picture, just a different name on
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it. But that's not what God is. God
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isn't a being that exists somewhere. God
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is being itself. Not a thing that exists
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among other things, but existence
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itself. The raw fact that anything is
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happening at all right now.
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Think about it this way. You can point
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to a chair, a tree, a person, a planet.
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Those are things that exist. God isn't
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another item on that list. Another thing
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you could point to next to the chair and
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the tree. God is the existing part.
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The fact that there's a chair at all
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instead of nothing. That there's a tree
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at all instead of nothing. That there's
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you reading this instead of nothing.
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That's it. That's the whole thing. Not
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an object in space. Not a person with a
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location. Just the plain fact of being
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happening right now everywhere as
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everything.
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Here's a way to feel this instead of
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just thinking about it. Picture a wave
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in the ocean. It rises up. It takes a
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shape. It moves. It does its thing for a
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while and then it settles back down. But
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at no point was that wave ever anything
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other than ocean. It didn't borrow some
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ocean stuff to become a wave. It was
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ocean the entire time. Just wearing a
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temporary shape.
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That's you. Not a piece that got cut off
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from God. Not a smaller, weaker, watered
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down version of God. The whole thing.
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the whole ocean showing up as a wave,
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showing up as an individual for a while.
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Try something right now. Say the words I
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am quietly to yourself and then just
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stop. Don't add anything after it. Don't
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say I am tired or I am ready or I am a
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person who does this job. Just I am.
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Stop right there. That's the whole thing
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right there. being stating itself plain
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with nothing tacked onto it.
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That bare sense of existing, the one
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that's there before you even get to your
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name, before you get to your job, your
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history, your opinions about yourself.
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That's not some small forgettable
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background hum. That's the actual
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substance this whole conversation has
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been pointing at from the start. Every
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religion, every mystic, every person who
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ever sat quietly and asked what am I
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really? They were circling this this
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plain undecorated sense of I am. And
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here's the part that reframes
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everything. Your consciousness isn't
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some separate little thing that God made
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and then set apart from itself. It's not
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separate from the creator at all. It's
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the instrument the creator is using to
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experience its own creation through your
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eyes, through your ears, through this
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exact moment right now. That's the
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creator looking out. And here's where it
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gets interesting because that awareness
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isn't just sitting in you isolated doing
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its own private thing.
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The awareness that's aware of this right
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now, the thing in you that's aware,
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that's the exact same awareness looking
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out through every pair of eyes on this
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planet. Every single one.
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Not similar. Not a spark of the same
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fire. Not a little piece cut from the
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same cloth. The same awareness. One
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awareness wearing billions of different
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faces walking around in billions of
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different bodies thinking it's billions
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of different people.
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Every person you'll ever meet in your
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life. Every stranger who walks past you
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on the street. Every face in a crowd
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you'll never speak to. That's one
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awareness. looking out from a different
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angle each time, a different set of
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eyes, a different history behind those
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eyes. But the seeing itself, the
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awareness doing the looking, that's not
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different from one person to the next.
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Picture light shining through a thousand
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windows.
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Some windows are stained glass, some are
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plain, some are cracked, some are huge,
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some are tiny. Every room looks
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different because of the window it's
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got, but the light coming through isn't
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a thousand different lights. It's one
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light shaped differently by whatever
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it's passing through.
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That's what's actually meant when people
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say we're made in God's image. It never
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had anything to do with how anybody
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looks. It's not a physical resemblance.
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It's an awareness resemblance. The thing
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looking out through your eyes and the
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thing looking out through anyone else's
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eyes, that's the image. That's the
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likeness. Same seeing, different
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windows.
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Which means the I am in you, that bare
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sense of existing you felt a minute ago.
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And the I am in the person sitting
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across from you at dinner tonight or the
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I am in somebody on the other side of
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the world you'll never meet. It's not
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two of those. It never was two. It just
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looks like two because it's looking out
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through two different faces.
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So once that actually lands, once you're
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not just nodding at it, but you actually
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see it, everything about how you live
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starts to shift.
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Prayer changes first. It stops being a
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list of requests you send off somewhere,
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hoping it lands on the right desk.
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Instead, it becomes recognition.
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You're not reaching for something far
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away. You're noticing what's already
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sitting right here being you right now
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because there's no distance to close, no
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bridge to build between you and God,
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nothing to earn, nothing to qualify for.
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It was never set up as a gap in the
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first place. So there's nothing to
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cross. And this isn't just some peak
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experience you get during meditation. It
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shows up in waiting in line at the
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store. It shows up in a conversation
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with someone at work. It shows up in
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sitting still for two seconds between
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one task and the next. The awareness
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doing all of that, present for all of
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it, is the exact same thing you've been
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calling God this entire time. Not a
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symbol of it, not a reflection of it. It
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the search ends too. Not because you
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finally found the thing you were looking
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for, but because you realize you can't
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find what was never lost in the first
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place. You can't misplace your own
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awareness. You can't lose the thing
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you're looking with. And here's the
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shift in language that comes with all
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this. To say God exists turns God into
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an object, a thing sitting out there
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separate from you that either is or
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isn't. But the awareness you actually
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are doesn't know God is. It only knows I
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am. That's it. That's the direct
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firsterson fact of the whole thing. And
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it's the only place any of this was ever
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going to be found.
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So here's the whole thing, plain and
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simple. God is not with you. God is
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being you. That's the entire shift right
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there. You were never a fragment out
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looking for the whole. You are the
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whole. You've just been showing up as a
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fragment for a while, wearing this face,
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living this life.
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So right now, just notice this moment.
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Notice the awareness that's aware of it.
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That's the thing you've been calling God
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this whole time.
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at luminaryflow.com.
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content. You'll find the link in the top
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comment below.
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God is not with you. God is being you.
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Not a being watching over you from
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somewhere else. Not something separate
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that shows up when you pray hard enough
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or feel spiritual enough. The awareness
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that's aware right now. The thing in you
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that's aware of these words landing,
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aware of the quiet space behind your
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thoughts.
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That's it. That's what we're talking
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about. That's the whole thing.
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This isn't a theory. It's not a nice way
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to think about things to feel better.
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It's just what's actually true, whether
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you've noticed it yet or not.
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So, here's what we're going to do. We're
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going to look at what that actually
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means. And then we're going to look at
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what it looks like once you actually see
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it. Once it stops being an idea and
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starts being obvious. Let's start with
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what God actually is.
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If this kind of content resonates with
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you, come find me at luminaryflow.com.
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There's a free gift waiting for you.
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You'll find the link in the top comment
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below. Now, let's get back into it.
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Most of us grew up with some picture of
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God as a being, a person sort of bigger
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than us, somewhere else watching. And
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even people who ditch the word God and
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swap in something like the universe or
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source or energy, they're usually still
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picturing the same setup. Some force,
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some presence sitting out there separate
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from them that they're trying to reach
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or connect with or get in line with.
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Same picture, just a different name on
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it. But that's not what God is. God
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isn't a being that exists somewhere. God
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is being itself. Not a thing that exists
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among other things, but existence
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itself. The raw fact that anything is
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happening at all right now.
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Think about it this way. You can point
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to a chair, a tree, a person, a planet.
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Those are things that exist. God isn't
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another item on that list. Another thing
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you could point to next to the chair and
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the tree. God is the existing part.
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The fact that there's a chair at all
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instead of nothing. That there's a tree
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at all instead of nothing. That there's
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you reading this instead of nothing.
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That's it. That's the whole thing. Not
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an object in space. Not a person with a
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location. Just the plain fact of being
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happening right now everywhere as
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everything.
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Here's a way to feel this instead of
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just thinking about it. Picture a wave
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in the ocean. It rises up. It takes a
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shape. It moves. It does its thing for a
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while and then it settles back down. But
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at no point was that wave ever anything
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other than ocean. It didn't borrow some
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ocean stuff to become a wave. It was
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ocean the entire time. Just wearing a
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temporary shape.
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That's you. Not a piece that got cut off
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from God. Not a smaller, weaker, watered
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down version of God. The whole thing.
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the whole ocean showing up as a wave,
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showing up as an individual for a while.
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Try something right now. Say the words I
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am quietly to yourself and then just
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stop. Don't add anything after it. Don't
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say I am tired or I am ready or I am a
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person who does this job. Just I am.
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Stop right there. That's the whole thing
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right there. being stating itself plain
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with nothing tacked onto it.
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That bare sense of existing, the one
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that's there before you even get to your
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name, before you get to your job, your
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history, your opinions about yourself.
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That's not some small forgettable
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background hum. That's the actual
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substance this whole conversation has
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been pointing at from the start. Every
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religion, every mystic, every person who
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ever sat quietly and asked what am I
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really? They were circling this this
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plain undecorated sense of I am. And
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here's the part that reframes
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everything. Your consciousness isn't
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some separate little thing that God made
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and then set apart from itself. It's not
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separate from the creator at all. It's
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the instrument the creator is using to
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experience its own creation through your
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eyes, through your ears, through this
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exact moment right now. That's the
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creator looking out. And here's where it
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gets interesting because that awareness
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isn't just sitting in you isolated doing
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its own private thing.
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The awareness that's aware of this right
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now, the thing in you that's aware,
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that's the exact same awareness looking
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out through every pair of eyes on this
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planet. Every single one.
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Not similar. Not a spark of the same
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fire. Not a little piece cut from the
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same cloth. The same awareness. One
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awareness wearing billions of different
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faces walking around in billions of
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different bodies thinking it's billions
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of different people.
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Every person you'll ever meet in your
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life. Every stranger who walks past you
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on the street. Every face in a crowd
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you'll never speak to. That's one
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awareness. looking out from a different
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angle each time, a different set of
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eyes, a different history behind those
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eyes. But the seeing itself, the
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awareness doing the looking, that's not
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different from one person to the next.
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Picture light shining through a thousand
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windows.
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Some windows are stained glass, some are
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plain, some are cracked, some are huge,
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some are tiny. Every room looks
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different because of the window it's
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got, but the light coming through isn't
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a thousand different lights. It's one
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light shaped differently by whatever
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it's passing through.
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That's what's actually meant when people
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say we're made in God's image. It never
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had anything to do with how anybody
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looks. It's not a physical resemblance.
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It's an awareness resemblance. The thing
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looking out through your eyes and the
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thing looking out through anyone else's
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eyes, that's the image. That's the
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likeness. Same seeing, different
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windows.
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Which means the I am in you, that bare
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sense of existing you felt a minute ago.
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And the I am in the person sitting
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across from you at dinner tonight or the
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I am in somebody on the other side of
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the world you'll never meet. It's not
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two of those. It never was two. It just
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looks like two because it's looking out
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through two different faces.
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So once that actually lands, once you're
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not just nodding at it, but you actually
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see it, everything about how you live
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starts to shift.
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Prayer changes first. It stops being a
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list of requests you send off somewhere,
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hoping it lands on the right desk.
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Instead, it becomes recognition.
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You're not reaching for something far
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away. You're noticing what's already
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sitting right here being you right now
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because there's no distance to close, no
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bridge to build between you and God,
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nothing to earn, nothing to qualify for.
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It was never set up as a gap in the
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first place. So there's nothing to
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cross. And this isn't just some peak
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experience you get during meditation. It
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shows up in waiting in line at the
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store. It shows up in a conversation
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with someone at work. It shows up in
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sitting still for two seconds between
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one task and the next. The awareness
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doing all of that, present for all of
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it, is the exact same thing you've been
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calling God this entire time. Not a
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symbol of it, not a reflection of it. It
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the search ends too. Not because you
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finally found the thing you were looking
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for, but because you realize you can't
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find what was never lost in the first
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place. You can't misplace your own
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awareness. You can't lose the thing
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you're looking with. And here's the
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shift in language that comes with all
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this. To say God exists turns God into
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an object, a thing sitting out there
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separate from you that either is or
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isn't. But the awareness you actually
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are doesn't know God is. It only knows I
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am. That's it. That's the direct
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firsterson fact of the whole thing. And
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it's the only place any of this was ever
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going to be found.
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So here's the whole thing, plain and
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simple. God is not with you. God is
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being you. That's the entire shift right
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there. You were never a fragment out
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looking for the whole. You are the
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whole. You've just been showing up as a
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fragment for a while, wearing this face,
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living this life.
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So right now, just notice this moment.
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Notice the awareness that's aware of it.
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That's the thing you've been calling God
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this whole time.
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If this resonated with you, come find me
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