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Why I sat in 500 men's circles · Council of Kings

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  SPEAKER_00: Brother, why did I sit in 500 men's circles in the past six years?
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  I sat in 500 men's circles because men's work is an ancient
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  primal force that you
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  SPEAKER_00: have to experience to understand.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you are consistently surrounded week in,
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  SPEAKER_00: week out by men you respect,
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  SPEAKER_00: men who are holding themselves to a higher standard,
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  SPEAKER_00: men who are holistically training everything,
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  SPEAKER_00: training in all areas of their life,
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  SPEAKER_00: training physically,
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  SPEAKER_00: training financially,
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  SPEAKER_00: spiritually,
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  SPEAKER_00: training to live their purpose and mission,
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  SPEAKER_00: training relationally to be the best fathers,
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  SPEAKER_00: partners,
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  SPEAKER_00: husbands that they can be,
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  SPEAKER_00: training in all areas of life,
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  SPEAKER_00: walking the path of wisdom and the path of mastery,
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  SPEAKER_00: Simply sitting in sacred space with such men changes you.
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  You absorb by osmosis the culture of such a group and you
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  become initiated into a
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  SPEAKER_00: different way of approaching your life as a man.
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  A way of greater honor,
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  greater integrity,
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  greater follow through,
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  greater accountability.
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  SPEAKER_00: greater emphasis on living your word,
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  SPEAKER_00: making your word law,
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  SPEAKER_00: doing what you say you're going to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: Men's work is a force for sacredness,
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  SPEAKER_00: for nobility for men,
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  SPEAKER_00: for leadership,
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  and especially when it is brought into the all-pervading
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  sunlight of God's loving
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  SPEAKER_00: presence,
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  SPEAKER_00: when it is
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  consciously held in the unconditional love of pure grace of the
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  creator that is
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  here now that is with us all that burns in all of our hearts
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  unconditionally when
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  it is held in that love it becomes an alchemical crucible it
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  becomes a forge of
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  of refinement,
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  where all that is in our being can be offered to that sacred
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  bonfire of love.
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  SPEAKER_00: All of our burdens, all of our decisions, all of our conundrums,
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  SPEAKER_00: all the sticky,
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  SPEAKER_00: gloppy parts and pieces of ourselves that we don't know what to do with,
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  we can discover a way of ceasing to try to intellectually
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  manage our whole life and
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  SPEAKER_00: integration process and we can learn
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  devotional stance with our brothers of speaking the truth of
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  our being into the
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  space offering anything and everything whether spoken or simply
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  silently offered
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  offering everything to that field of unconditionally loving
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  presence that pervades
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  SPEAKER_00: all things and yet when that presence is consciously invoked and
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  And prayed to and meditated upon and contemplated with your
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  brothers week in,
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  SPEAKER_00: week out,
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  SPEAKER_00: for years on end.
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  SPEAKER_00: As we've been doing within Council of Kings,
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  SPEAKER_00: going strong for four years now,
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  SPEAKER_00: we've held about 300 some circles within our brotherhood.
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  SPEAKER_00: And through those circles,
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  SPEAKER_00: we have consistently charged the space,
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  SPEAKER_00: created a living classroom,
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  SPEAKER_00: to use the language of the author of LSD and the Mind of the Universe,
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  SPEAKER_00: Christopher Bache.
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  SPEAKER_00: A living classroom,
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  a living field that is potentiated and charged and palpably
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  suffused with this
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  SPEAKER_00: grace and love through repeated prayerful things.
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  sacramental showing up for one another we have created a
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  container of foundational
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  trust love and safety where men can feel safe to express and
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  share anything from
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  the full spectrum of their life to receive honest feedback from
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  their brothers to
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  SPEAKER_00: give and offer everything
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  SPEAKER_00: to that bonfire of loving presence,
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  SPEAKER_00: that alchemical flame of pure grace that we are cultivating,
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  SPEAKER_00: that we are becoming transparent to,
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  SPEAKER_00: that we are surrendering to,
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  SPEAKER_00: devoting ourselves to.
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  SPEAKER_00: True leaders are led by God, plain and simple.
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  SPEAKER_00: Plain and simple.
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  SPEAKER_00: Many men and many people won't like to hear that,
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  but for me it is the deepest truth there is there is one
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  creator there is one
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  divinity there is one all-pervading divine loving presence and
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  intelligence that we
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  all deeply know in our heart of hearts whether or not we're
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  aware that we know it
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  SPEAKER_00: and this intelligence
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  SPEAKER_00: This loving intelligence is true wisdom,
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  SPEAKER_00: is the true way,
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  SPEAKER_00: the truth,
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  SPEAKER_00: and the life is the logos,
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  SPEAKER_00: the through line.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you feel yourself coming into alignment with God,
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  SPEAKER_00: brother,
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  SPEAKER_00: that is when you will know why you're on this earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Life will make sense on levels beyond rationality or sense-making.
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  SPEAKER_00: You will feel at home in your body.
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  SPEAKER_00: You will know your purpose as a man.
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  You will know what you are being directed to do and how you are
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  being directed to show up.
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  Your purpose and clarity will cut through the cobwebs of
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  excessive anxiety and
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  stagnation and self-regard and you will begin moving forward as
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  a man with renewed
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  SPEAKER_00: activation,
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  SPEAKER_00: ignition,
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  SPEAKER_00: feeling yourself
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  SPEAKER_00: being breathed by God,
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  SPEAKER_00: feeling like you've got the whole universe behind you,
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  like the momentum of the Big Bang is behind you because you are
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  aligning with the
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  SPEAKER_00: foundational governing principle of reality itself,
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  SPEAKER_00: of reality itself.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that,
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  SPEAKER_00: brothers,
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  SPEAKER_00: that is the essence of the deepest men's work,
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  SPEAKER_00: an ancient primal force where you feel the
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  that ancient current of our ancestors gathering around the
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  bonfire to speak truth
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  SPEAKER_00: and to hold one another in brotherhood,
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  SPEAKER_00: a holistic training ground where we train everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: We train all areas of our life.
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  SPEAKER_00: We train to become men we truly respect,
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  SPEAKER_00: trained to become the best we can be on this earth for the children,
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  SPEAKER_00: the women,
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  SPEAKER_00: our fellow brothers,
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  SPEAKER_00: and for all beings and all creatures.
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  SPEAKER_00: And on the deepest level,
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  SPEAKER_00: a space where we collectively feel the purpose of surrendering to God,
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  SPEAKER_00: surrendering into true devotion,
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  SPEAKER_00: making our entire lives a prayer,
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  SPEAKER_00: giving our lives over to something infinitely greater than ourselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is what
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  SPEAKER_00: The greatest human lives, the greatest lives of men are made of.
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  SPEAKER_00: Men who gave themselves over to love, over to truth, over to grace.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is the nature of the deepest men's work.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is what we do in Council of Kings.
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  SPEAKER_00: We do it through weekly councils.
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  We do it through time-bound journeys like our upcoming 100-day
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  accelerator,
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  Rise of Kings.
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  SPEAKER_00: We do it through in-person retreats.
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  We have around four retreats coming up this year in Italy,
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  Germany,
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  USA,
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  and Mexico.
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  SPEAKER_00: And some of the deepest work we do happens on retreat.
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  SPEAKER_00: Retreats are incredibly deep in person with your brothers.
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  SPEAKER_00: And especially when we dive deep with the medicines,
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  like when we take brothers down to Kumankaya in Mexico and we
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  sit with the
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  SPEAKER_00: ayahuasca,
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  that is some of the very deepest individual and collective
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  healing work that we do
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  SPEAKER_00: to bring forth men's
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  true power and potency heal the deepest wounds learn to bring
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  that power and
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  potency into and under the deepest love the deepest profound
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  love and grace
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  of the totality such that all of that power all aspects of a
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  man can be integrated
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  and harmonized can set down their burdens and get on the same
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  team the same
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  harmonized inner ecology in service of love in service of truth
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  in service of the
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  the true center the true center of our being the ever innocent
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  heart the home of
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  SPEAKER_00: homes the king of kings
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  SPEAKER_00: Christ Almighty,
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  SPEAKER_00: here and now,
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  SPEAKER_00: the radiant diamond heart of Sri Anandamaya,
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  SPEAKER_00: of all the great saints and teachers,
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  SPEAKER_00: the Christ,
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  SPEAKER_00: the universal Christ,
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  SPEAKER_00: the universal God lives and burns in your heart of hearts as pure love.
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  SPEAKER_00: And brother,
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  SPEAKER_00: if I may humbly declare it, that is what you're truly looking for.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are looking for God in your heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nothing else will suffice.
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  SPEAKER_00: You try to fill that hole with everything,
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  SPEAKER_00: with social media,
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  SPEAKER_00: with porn,
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  SPEAKER_00: with distractions,
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  SPEAKER_00: with entertainment,
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  SPEAKER_00: with addiction,
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  SPEAKER_00: with gambling.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nothing can fill that void.
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  SPEAKER_00: except for God.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a God-shaped hole.
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  SPEAKER_00: And God is there.
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  SPEAKER_00: God is there in your heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: But you have to remember how to return to that visceral,
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  SPEAKER_00: felt,
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  loving reality and live that and feel that and let that suffuse
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  your being and your
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  SPEAKER_00: life and become the radiant presence that you exude unto all beings.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the deepest men's work,
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  SPEAKER_00: the deepest brotherhood,
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  SPEAKER_00: such as what we practice in Council of Kings,
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  SPEAKER_00: with our brothers of the ever-innocent heart,
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  SPEAKER_00: that is a space where you can truly discover through direct osmosis,
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  SPEAKER_00: direct absorbing of the field,
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  SPEAKER_00: of the potency of that field,
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  SPEAKER_00: of the grace and the unconditional love that have been
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  SPEAKER_00: woven into that field that has been charged up with those qualities,
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  SPEAKER_00: where men who are embodying those qualities,
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  SPEAKER_00: men you respect,
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  SPEAKER_00: gather in sacred space with you and speak truth with you.
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  That is one of the deepest spaces that a man can connect to his
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  deepest truth,
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  SPEAKER_00: his deepest wisdom,
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  SPEAKER_00: which is nameless and goes by many names.
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  SPEAKER_00: I call it God.
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  SPEAKER_00: I call him God.
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  SPEAKER_00: I call her God.
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  The eternal father,
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  the eternal mother,
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  the eternal Christ is our true heart of hearts.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for listening, brother.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for considering.
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  SPEAKER_00: God bless you and yours.
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  SPEAKER_00: God bless you and your family.
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  SPEAKER_00: all the days of your life.
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  SPEAKER_00: May the road rise to meet you.
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  SPEAKER_00: May the wind be at your back.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be well, brother.
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  SPEAKER_00: Take care.