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The Contemplative Christ. In the endless sea of noise that is our world, a quiet invitation echoes through the centuries. It is a call not to a distant historical figure, but to an intimate, indwelling presence—the Contemplative Christ. This is the Christ of the inner Galilee, the inner resurrection from ego to soul. The one who walks on the waters of our own chaotic minds and bids us to come along and awaken to reality, just as it is, without the cognitive distortions of the personality. Jesus had an energetic vibration higher than anyone else who has ever walked the earth and his power, wisdom, compassion and contemplative intelligence are still changing the world today - the world and everything that is in it! Many highly energetic world changers have taught us how we're asleep to our human faculties and how an awakening is essential - Gandhi, Buddha, Moses and others.

His wisdom is a living stream that flows beneath the hard-packed earth of religious dogma, urging us to journey beyond the small, constructed self and into the luminous landscape of the soul. Christianity itself, just like everything else is being threshed out and resurrected as a massive shift in consciousness floods the world, awakening us to a new way of being.

The Shimmering Mirage of the Ego

So what is the personality and why do we need to wake up from it? The Contemplative Christ spoke so clearly we found it almost to difficult to comprehend. Give to receive, love an enemy, the meek will come out tops and teachings like he who is last is first stunned the egoic world and still do; enough to shake millions of us awake from the slumber of the nightmare we once believed to be reality. God is the ultimate therapist and everyone is invited to undergo some kind of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) with Him. He knew therapy would be necessary for everyone. In other words the natural state of a human in to be shrouded in personality masks, shadows and deceit. Yes, the mind lies to you and hides things from you and no one is exempt. So an awakening, a kind of therapy process (which I call life) is necessary to allow us to become fully conscious, contemplative and aware of who we are and what is going on in our environment; the universe. Sayings like 'love your enemy' mean absolutely nothing to the personality we develop, which becomes our personal reality.
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00:00The Christ mystery and the story of the contemplative Christ is one of the best stories
00:05anyone could ever hear. And it's a story intertwined into all other stories, which
00:11we'll go through now. All you need to do is use your contemplative intelligence to be still and
00:20go beyond your thinking to discover the reason for Jesus showing up on this blue marble.
00:30That we call home. When it comes to Christianity, many people throw out the baby with the bathwater
00:35and they make up their minds because of people's immaturity and shocking behavior and murderous
00:44intentions and judgments that Christians per se or religious people make on others. A divine character
00:52who was around 14 billion years ago, not just a few thousand years ago, to really show us
01:01several things. One of them was to allow us to understand and to be able to see in material form
01:09that eternal life is a gift. It's a free offering to live forever with God, the creator. So he came
01:19to reveal God's true nature and everything changed. And I mean everything. He began to perform miracles
01:28to heal the sick. He turned religion upside down and he provided the perfect example of how to live a good
01:36life. A life with values that are innate in all of us. When we grow up, own up and show up. A life where we
01:46develop enough self-love to grow and contribute and help others. To help the story of humility, grandiosity
01:57was amazing. To teach that the meek or the egoless will inherit the earth is one of the greatest stories
02:04ever told. So to understand the teachings of the contemplative Christ, think about your ego. It's what
02:10I call your persona, the sense of I or your personality, your identity. Now in today's world, we're often pushed
02:20to build our personal brand to stand out to achieve as much external validation as possible. It's created
02:28a mental health crisis, chaos. And while a healthy self-esteem is crucial, an unchecked ego can become
02:37a real barrier to true peace and spiritual growth. It fuels judgment, comparison, anxiety, the constant
02:45need for control, and often a deep sense of separation. All anxiety is separation anxiety.
02:53But what did Christ teach us about this? Throughout his ministry, he consistently pointed away from
02:59their attachment to self. Think about the parables. They often critique those who clung to their wealth,
03:07their status, their perceived importance, their personas, their masks. He spoke of humility,
03:14selflessness, and a radical, unconditional love that utterly transcends personal gain. He wasn't
03:22interested in building an ego. Rather, he was interested in building a connection to something
03:28far, far greater. So if not the personality, the personality that creates your personal reality,
03:35then what? The contemplative Christ is a path of profound renewal, a conscious, deliberate effort
03:42to reshape our inner landscape, to transform our minds, and free our souls. And this isn't some
03:49abstract, unreachable ideal. It's a practical, everyday practice. It's life itself. Letting go of the old,
03:59the conformed mind, the selfish, garrulous ego, and discovering a new side of ourselves, powerful,
04:07inherent, eternal side of ourselves, our sacred selves. So let's break it down a little more.
04:14Renewing the mind. This is central. It's a teaching that isn't about intellectual acrobats or
04:20memorizing scriptures. It's about fundamental shifts in perspective.
04:25Christ challenged the conventional wisdom of his time. He taught contemplation, thinking about
04:34thinking, questioning ideas that people not only believed in, but defended that were cruel, ridiculous.
04:43He encouraged people to look beyond the rigid letter of the law to its compassionate spirit.
04:49He called for self-reflection, contemplation, for questioning our ingrained assumptions,
04:57our dualistic minds, and for seeking truth, rather with an open, receptive heart.
05:04One thing that we always do when we operate from the ego is harden our hearts. And that EQ
05:10is the very beginning of healing for whoever is looking for it. We start with letting go of our need for
05:18control. Because we don't have any, if truth be told. And we move from IQ to EQ, opening our hearts
05:25again. When the heart is open, it's receptive. It can receive reality. And we start to really perceive
05:32something new. Truth and reality through mindfulness and presence. The contemplative Christ lived in an
05:40almost continuous state of profound presence. There was very little history in his story.
05:47It was all about presence. He wasn't dwelling on yesterday's troubles at all, or tomorrow's worries.
05:54And he knew what those worries were going to be. He was here now, offering his full attention to the
06:01person in front of him, to the lessons at hand. Practicing real mindfulness helps us quiet that
06:08incessant, ego-driven chatter that we all have, and truly helps us connect with the present moment.
06:16Returning to presence is an absolute doorway out of anxiety, depression, powerlessness.
06:24Through contemplation he challenged negative thoughts, negative thought patterns. Our minds are built in
06:32a certain way, and can be a breeding ground for judgment, doubt, negativity, control. All products
06:39of ego are trying to protect itself. You see, the ego, the self-built persona, mask, or personality,
06:47knows it's gonna die. It's not here for long. It's there to build you up, so that you can set yourself
06:55free. It is a container for the first half of life, and like a worm. Our metamorphosis turns us into a
07:06winged creature, someone who goes beyond the bounds of the controlling, judging, negative mind. When we do that,
07:16we start to perceive forgiveness, compassion, self-compassion, and passion for the world.
07:25And in the incredible power of positive intention, we start to be able to create something beautiful.
07:33We create beautiful selves. We create beautiful conversations, beautiful homes, beautiful families.
07:40By consciously choosing to cultivate our innate virtues, our higher virtues, we begin to dismantle
07:49the ego stronghold, brick by brick. And this we call the paradigm process, a spiritual journey
07:57from personality to spiritual reality. So the contemplative path is all about renewing the soul.
08:04It's a deep dive into our spiritual core, our essence of who we are, beyond our temporary
08:12personality. So to understand the contemplative mind, let's just quickly look at the personality,
08:19which is simply a mask we wear, an individual's unique patterns of thoughts, feelings, attitudes,
08:27that over time become traits. And those traits become behaviors, the things we do. And in the end,
08:35they define how we interact and perceive the world. All your genes, all your genetics, environmental
08:42factors, your internal drives, and every thought and every emotion lumped together, create that mask,
08:50that reflection of who we need to be to survive in a world where we need food, clothing, significance.
09:01We need to fit in. We need to stand out and shine. So we all have a fairly unique pattern of traits
09:09that develop a personality that helps us interact with the world. Some of us are more open, more
09:16conscientious. Some of us are extroverted or introverted. Some of us are high or low in
09:23agreeableness and neuroticism. But this mask was not built to last. In today's world, with a mental
09:30health crisis, that mask soon starts to smother us. You see, you weren't built to stay controlling,
09:40to stay neurotic, to stay a perfectionist or a people pleaser. No. To be like that for an eternity
09:47could be hell. We have 85,000 thoughts a day. The problem with those thoughts are that they're almost
09:55always the same thoughts that we had the day before, the week before, the month before. So contemplation
10:02is rather an act of deep thought about reality. It's about questioning the thoughts that we think
10:10constantly. Are they true? Are they really true? This questioning would have done us as humanity
10:18a great service in history. But history teaches us that we learn nothing from history. We don't see.
10:25We think then act. We don't deeply feel. We don't contemplate. Otherwise we wouldn't have had war
10:32after war after war. Enemy after enemy after enemy. This contemplation, this way of thinking,
10:40will really save the world, end racism, end the endless judgments that keep us feeling as though
10:48we're separate, separate from each other, nature and God. Contemplation in some ways involves
10:55a concentration of the mind and soul on spiritual truths. It's about thinking about thinking
11:02and questioning our thoughts, beliefs, values and experiences, which is something we won't
11:07automatically do. The mind loves shortcuts. It hates introspection because it thinks it'll find
11:13pain and suffering. A person who's not worth enough. The contemplative Christ taught us about
11:22contemplation, which is really the art of being fully present, fully, fully present and seeing
11:28reality clearly, without the distortions of one's own ego, biases and past experiences.
11:36It involves a deeper, non-dualistic way of thinking that leads to greater self-awareness,
11:42authentic living and a compassionate connection to others in the divine. Just like Jesus' life,
11:48it was all about contemplative practices, all about healing, personal transformation and achieving an
11:55inner stillness, a peace that goes beyond understanding, an inner stillness that helps
12:02us understand the true nature of reality. So the contemplative mind is about being fully present
12:09to body, mind and soul, allowing one's compassionate and creative self to emerge. It involves re-looking
12:16at reality, seeing it as it is, and letting go of our social constructs and past traumas that create
12:24a distorted view. The process of contemplation leads to a sacred path, into stillness, unexplained,
12:33where one can gain profound inner knowledge about themselves, others in the universe. So it's really
12:40a powerful, the most powerful form of intelligence, IQ, then EQ, then CQ. By shedding the persona,
12:51the ego-driven false self, we can discover the true self, which will become the eternal self,
12:56leading to greater freedom, authenticity, belonging. So Jesus often retreated to solitary places for
13:05prayer and contemplation, to be still and to know God. And in that silence, he reconnected with the divine,
13:12renewing his spirit and gaining profound clarity, just like you and I can. How often do we truly allow
13:19ourselves moments of stillness today? Away from the noise, a time to listen to the whisper of our own soul,
13:27a soul that we try and avoid. That's the nature of the mind. That's what we need to overcome.
13:34And then there's the ultimate expression of the renewed soul, unconditional love and selfless service.
13:40Those are the traits of anybody who has had any kind of spiritual awakening or experience,
13:47where they have understood that they are two minds and that they are not the thoughts that they think
13:53all day long. That's an awakening in itself. It's enough. Christ's entire life was a testament to this,
14:00showing us that true fulfillment doesn't come from what we accumulate, but from what we give.
14:06And the world that is sleeping today is an accumulating world. We've accumulated land in the past.
14:14That's what wars have been fought for. For what? All the riches in the world, how will they serve us
14:20in the next life? But the mind cannot stop the billionaires today, who work until their last breath,
14:27amassing fortunes. Or so they think. We're not addicted to our drinking. We're addicted to our
14:33thinking and our thoughts, unless we're able to stop, contemplate life. When we do that, we nurture our own
14:40spiritual growth. The ego thrives on control. It wants to plan everything, predict everything,
14:46dominate everything. But the soul finds peace and trust and in surrendering to a higher power,
14:53a higher purpose. Christ's unwavering faith in his Father's will, even in the face of unimaginable
15:00suffering, which is how you might see the world today, is the ultimate example of this profound
15:06surrender. Letting go of the need to control everything allows us immense peace.
15:13Contemplation is not about retreating from the world into a monastery. It's about engaging with
15:18the world more authentically. It's about thinking about thinking, bringing a renewed mind and soul
15:26to our relationships, our work, our communities, the things we create.
15:31It's about remembering that our true identity lies far beyond the transient stories of our personality,
15:39our ego. In the eternal essence of who we are, we understand that we're connected to something far,
15:47far greater than ourselves. Everybody understands this. We all know this. So in a world which is like an
15:57endless sea of noise, a quiet invitation echoes through the centuries. It's a call not to a distant
16:06historical figure, but to an intimate indwelling presence, the contemplative Christ. A Christ who
16:13taught us actually about inner resurrection from ego to soul. The one who walks on the waters of our own
16:20chaotic minds and bids us to come along to connect and awaken to reality just as it is without the
16:28cognitive distortions of the persona. Jesus had an energetic vibration higher than anyone else who
16:35has ever walked the earth and his power, wisdom, compassion and contemplative intelligence are still
16:42changing the world today. That's true power. Many other highly energetic world changes have taught us
16:49how we're asleep to our human faculties and how awakening is essential. Gandhi, Buddha, Moses and others
16:57have taught us about waking up. Whether you go into the jungles of India or to the streets of
17:05China or Japan, you will see people looking for silence, moving away from the humdrum. Pursuits of a
17:14world that is growing, growing in many ways that do not matter. They spend their time constructing the
17:20constructed self rather than escaping into the luminous landscape of the soul that is eternal, that is
17:28truly creative, boundless. So Christianity itself just like everything else is being threshed out and
17:36resurrected as a massive shift continues in the world today. The whole world is awakening to a new way of
17:43being. Everything is changing and the evidence, the scientific evidence that we need is look at schools,
17:51universities, politics, look at religion. Everything is being threshed out, including you. And what's
17:58happening to you and your threshing out is that you're moving from your personality to spirituality. So
18:05it's all true. No matter which language you speak or which tradition you follow, it's all true. We're going
18:14through a metamorphosis process. We're moving from worm to butterfly. Like everything else. Is there a
18:22better time to have been alive in history? Probably not. There's a lot going on. Magic. Mystery.
18:30Transformation. Who would have thought we had to give to receive? Love an enemy. Who would have thought the
18:37meek will come out tops? Who would have thought that the egoic world would build nothing? And people who
18:43pursued peace would be just like children saving the earth. God really is the ultimate therapist. And
18:51everyone is invited to undergo some kind of cognitive behavioral therapy with him, some CBT. He knew
18:58therapy would be necessary for everyone. In other words, the natural state, the first state of any human
19:06is shrouded in personality, in deceit, in masks. Yes, the mind lies to you.
19:12And hides things from you. And no one is exempt. So in awakening, a kind of therapy process, which I call
19:20life, is necessary to allow us to become fully conscious, contemplative and aware of who we are,
19:28what is going on in our environment, what the universe is about, and where it's all going. Saying
19:34things like, love your enemy really means absolutely nothing to the personality we develop. We can say
19:40it, but we don't mean it. We don't practice it, that's for sure. Christian, Jew, or otherwise. We
19:47practice harming our enemy. That's the nature of the frightened personality. Take the myth of Narcissus,
19:54for example. It's a tragic tale of mistaken identity. Narcissus was captivated by an illusion,
20:02a reflection he believed was real and ultimately wasted away. We face a similar spiritual danger
20:09when we fall in love with our own persona, the personality we protect. It's only a mask. So to
20:17discover the sacred self within, unlike Narcissus, we must turn away from the reflection. The paradigm
20:25process, creating a paradigm shift, total paradigm shift in how we perceive the world, is the path
20:33to do so. Systematically removing the 10 masks of personality we all have to reveal the authentic
20:41soul or the sacred self. We are born into a world that hands us masks that we call our face. It's a
20:49gilded cage and some try and never take it off. What would you find underneath? Too scary, too frightful,
20:57shameful even. What would you find underneath that mask, bearing your soul to the world, to yourself? But
21:04life will have its way. You see, that beautiful shimmering mirage of who you first think you are
21:12is like water that can never quench a soul's deep thirst. The contemplative Christ, our Great Way
21:18Shower, consistently pointed beyond this mirage. He came to earth to physical form at exactly the right
21:26time in history. Not a minute too soon, nor too late. Too soon and we would not have grasped the little
21:32inklings of his teachings we are starting to only understand today, centuries later. A moment too
21:40late and our need for war on our neighbours would have ended us all, there and then. So, his mystical
21:47and contemplative parables are love songs to the soul. See, the IQ couldn't understand his wisdom bombs,
21:56revealing the profound folly of clinging to the disintegrating and deceptive masks of wealth,
22:03status and righteousness. People don't understand that's what he taught. And he taught with the authority
22:09of the elements, the wind, the rain, a selfless humility, a radical love that dissolves the boundaries of
22:17the small self. Thank goodness. He invites us not to destroy the ego so wisely, but to gently set it
22:27aside and to see through it to the unadorned essential beauty of the true self that was meant
22:34to be protected by that personality. So, we don't do away with this ego, these masks or this personality.
22:40We get to dissolve and include our personality into who we really are, that part of us that kept us
22:47alive in the first half of our lives. So, this revealing of the self is simple. It's the very
22:53meaning of birth, death and of course, resurrection. A mystical kind of raising back to life,
23:01life. But not of the body, rather of the mind. A mind that once conformed to its lower instinctual
23:11five-sensory worldview, becomes or is rather transformed, you know, goes above and is made
23:18into a loving, communing, peaceful and beautiful being. I keep quoting Dotsieffsky on this,
23:25because I truly understand it now. Beauty will save the world. Maybe St. Francis puts it better than I
23:33ever could. To be understood as to understand. To be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we
23:43receive. It is in pardoning that we are pardoned. And here's the big one. It is in dying that we are born,
23:51raised or awakened. To eternal life. To contemplative seeing. So, knowing that you have
23:58contemplative intelligence, higher thinking, meta-thinking, is the first step of real change.
24:05Awareness. Contemplative intelligence is our integrated capacity for meta-thinking. The awareness of
24:12one's own thought process, really. To achieve wisdom, radical self-regulation and a compassionate action
24:20by combining one's physical, emotional and psychological and spiritual aspects all together.
24:27You know, that's what yoga means. Union. It brings together body, heart, mind. It involves
24:34deep reflection and mindfulness to understand one's internal states and motivations,
24:39leading to more thoughtful decisions at first, then better ethical considerations and a
24:46greater sense of freedom and authenticity. It's a wonderful thing to experience. Living a contemplative
24:52life was the plan. Practices like meditation, yoga and even journaling can help cultivate
25:00contemplative intelligence. Gazing. Stopping the mind. Getting into the gap. Moving into the space
25:07between stimulus and response. Anywhere beyond calculating analytical thought moves us to a deeper,
25:17integrated understanding of ourselves and reality. So, contemplation itself, if you want to learn more
25:24about it, is what I call the sacred path to stillness and inner knowing. The practice that shifts
25:30perception to understand the divine in ourselves and the universe. The world is a beautiful place,
25:37not an awful place. Just look around. So, we go from survival to self-actualization and transform
25:45from a limited mind to a truly awakened and intelligent state. Contemplation is a journey into deep inner
25:53stillness. It just allows for that connection, that communion with the divine. It gives us that
26:00profound sense of inner knowing. It's there. It's natural. Spiritual. Mystical. It involves recognizing
26:10the sacredness inherent in all things and at all times, shifting perception to a higher awareness.
26:17We start to see the sacred. We start transcending limitations. We move beyond the dualistic and
26:24ego-driven aspects of the mind. And this, in turn, leads us to transformation from that limited state
26:31to true intelligence. Intelligence that doesn't harm.
26:35So, think of all the best minds in Russia today. What are they doing with Ukraine and vice versa?
26:44Hundreds of minds, thousands of them, flinging bombs across a fence and hoping that when the bomb lands,
26:52flowers will come up. No. Pain comes. Suffering comes. Until they do one thing. Until they stop.
27:01Stop analyzing and calculating. Until they stop hating. Until they move away, as narcissists did.
27:09And begin to love who they think is their enemy. But the enemy is not over that fence. It's themselves.
27:16That was the teaching. So, contemplative practice can really bring about physical, mental, emotional,
27:23and spiritual changes on a worldwide scale. So, what we really need to remember about Christianity,
27:31teachings of God, is that he taught us to see reality not through the fractured lens of the
27:36persona, which thrives on that judgment and separation, but rather through the unified gaze of the heart.
27:44Love. Or the single eye, as some people call it. The eyes behind the eye. That's the game of life.
27:52You need to get there. Contemplative seeing is not seeing with the eye. As Jesus taught,
27:58the lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light.
28:06So, the lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of
28:13light. This good or single eye is the contemplative mind that sees with love and wholeness, illuminating
28:20our entire being and perception of the world. Thomas Merton believed that contemplation and action were
28:28inseparable, an idea he saw embodied in Jesus' life. We have to think and do and make those the same.
28:36If you're not awake, what you think is not what you do, and you don't even realize it. Isn't Putin
28:42thinking he's doing a marvelous and wonderful thing? Not to pick on Putin. He's going through the process
28:48of transformation himself. But the suffering and devastation remain until we awaken. Now,
28:55in the East, people do less action and more contemplation in certain ways in their monasteries,
29:02in their temples. And in the West, we do vice versa. We do more action and far less contemplation. So,
29:09either way is good. We need both a zero and one in the binary systems that manage the cosmos.
29:16We need to think and do. We need to put our money where our mouth is and walk the line of transformation.
29:23So, unlike most Christians that have gone before us, shouting off with the enemy's head,
29:30the enemy we were slaying was ourselves. Time and time again, much like Cain and Abel,
29:38it just continued and perpetuated like it's doing today. We should have loved our enemy as we were
29:44taught. But we were conformed. We were blind, incapable. Today, the opportunity remains. And
29:53through contemplative seeing and the birth of the contemplative mind, thank God, that is all changing.
30:00We are moving past the duality of racism, judgment, and ego. The world is changing.
30:08We're moving from fear to love. It's that simple. And it's happening. God wins, but only every time.
30:17So, how then do we accept this invitation to move beyond the ego and move into the heart? How do we
30:23actually do it? How do we go about this journey of tender renewal or the alchemical process of turning
30:31the lead of our conditioning into the gold of our true nature? Remember, it's not an exercise of
30:37intellect, but an expansion of seeing. Christ's wisdom was a radical revisioning of reality,
30:44a call to look with the eyes of the sacred self. So, it's this practice of contemplative intelligence,
30:51above lateral thinking, where we learn to witness the frantic stories of the mind without
30:57becoming entangled in them. And when we do that, we experience the grace of presence.
31:02We dissolve the inner critic. You know, the mind can be a courtroom where our ten ego insurgents or
31:09masks of the personality play judge and jury, condemning us and everyone else with thoughts of doubt,
31:15fear and judgment, endlessly. By consciously choosing to anoint our thoughts with compassion and grace,
31:23we actually begin to dismantle the ego's iron grip and allow a deeper kind of wisdom to start to emerge.
31:30That's how we do it. So, this is the deeper, quieter work, the descent into the heart that renews the soul.
31:38It's the journey from the head to the heart, IQ to EQ, from the surface to the source. It's about remembering
31:45that part of us that has never been wounded, never will be wounded. The divine, eternal spark that is
31:53our essence, yours and mine. Then there's the luminous silence. Christ so often retreated into that wild
32:01solitude of mountains and the desert. He knew that in the great silence we could hear the whisper of our creator.
32:09This is not an empty silence, but a luminous and pregnant stillness.
32:15Pregnant with possibility where the soul is nourished and our true name is spoken.
32:22All those biblical characters who found some kind of awakening had their name changed. I don't know if you noticed.
32:28To find these moments is to come home to ourselves. Today, these moments are essential for our sanity.
32:37End of story. We need to practice love as overflow today. The ultimate expression of a renewed soul is not striving,
32:45but an overflowing and abundance, really. The unconditional love, which is very, very powerful,
32:52and selfless service we see in Christ's life, is the natural consequence of a being connected
32:58to the infinite source of love. It is not something we do, but something we allow to move through us.
33:05So remember, it's in giving that we receive. It is in knocking that the door will be opened.
33:10By extending this current of compassion, we participate in the healing of the world.
33:16Each and every one of us is so important. We're all part, equally part, of this divine play.
33:25This transformation on a universal scale. We must develop the courage of surrender.
33:31Courage meaning heart, so the ego's mantra, remember, is I control, and the soul's prayer is I trust.
33:39The surrender that we want you to go through to find your authentic self is not a passive giving up in any way.
33:47It's an active, courageous letting go into the arms of love that has been holding us all along.
33:54Christ's unwavering trust in the divine will, even to the cross, is the ultimate testament to this profound peace.
34:03Forgive them for they don't know what they're doing. Unbelievable. Beyond anything we could think.
34:11So this shift is the final release that sets us truly free. The awakened self knows that all manner of things are well.
34:18That's the secret to the universe. All is well. All is well, and all manner of things shall be well.
34:28But the frightened personality wants no part in that. The frightened personality spends all of its time
34:34running, fighting, flighting, and freezing. But now remember Romans 12.2, do not conform to the pattern of this world,
34:42but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's
34:51will is. His good, pleasing, and perfect will. This quote explains what the contemplative Christ
34:59taught us in a nutshell. If we conform to who we think we are, which is a five-sensory human being
35:05with a personality that is doomed to die with very little meaning, we suffer terribly. But if we renew
35:11our minds, if we awaken to our contemplative intelligence, our seeing with the eyes behind
35:17the eyes, then we have passed the test, the trial of life. We will have confirmed God's will, which is
35:25to wake up at least once while we're still alive. So to embrace the contemplative Christ's teachings,
35:31we must just inhabit the world more deeply, more authentically. We must stop and smell the roses,
35:40contemplate reality, exactly as it is, without those endless distortions, judgments, delusions.
35:50Walking the path with an open heart is about going to find a renewed mind that can soften your heart
35:57and affect all your relationships, your work, and eventually our communities. It is finally to
36:04understand that our true identity is not in the fleeting story of personality, but rather in the
36:10eternal, unnameable essence of our being. A being inextricably woven into the fabric of God. God's
36:18nature is love and it's good. It's good news. It's all good in the end. So let this timeless wisdom be
36:26your guide. It's a path that leads not to a distant heaven, but to the heaven that lies within, waiting
36:33with infinite patience for your return. It is a journey into a profound life of peace, unshakable
36:40purpose, and a joy that the world cannot give and cannot take away. Namaste.
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