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The True Power of Single-Pointed Devotion · Council of Kings

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  Emily is feeling a calling to share a message that it is a
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  great boon in life to
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  SPEAKER_00: become single-pointed.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is a great boon in life to discover your North Star,
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  SPEAKER_00: to discover a North Star that feels utterly and eminently and
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  permanently trustworthy a north star that you literally feel
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  like you could put
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  your life in the hands of that north star you could utterly
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  give your life over to
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  that north star and your life would be in good hands in hands
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  better than your own
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  hands in the hands of a totalizing inferno of loving grace
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  perhaps perhaps
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  And I would generally suggest to you that the true north star
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  of every being of
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  every soul that we all know in our heart of hearts is what
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  could be called nameless
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  SPEAKER_00: divinity.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is,
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  SPEAKER_00: in my experience,
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  SPEAKER_00: not putting this forth as a dogma or a belief system,
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  SPEAKER_00: but experientially,
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  SPEAKER_00: There is a totalizing inferno of loving grace in our heart of hearts,
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  SPEAKER_00: in the depths of our being that is utterly and completely trustworthy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everything can be given to that totalizing inferno and you can trust that
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  totalizing inferno of grace that some have called God or
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  Brahman or the diamond
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  SPEAKER_00: heart of Buddha nature
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  SPEAKER_00: the fire heart of the Tao,
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  SPEAKER_00: the heart of Allah,
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  SPEAKER_00: Elohim,
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  SPEAKER_00: Jehovah,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: this totalizing inferno of grace,
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  SPEAKER_00: great goddess,
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  SPEAKER_00: Anandamai,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: there are many,
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  SPEAKER_00: many names that
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  SPEAKER_00: for that which is also nameless nameless and goes by many names my humble
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  suggestion to you is that that is the only north star whatever
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  expression of that
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  totalizing inferno of grace at the center of our being whatever
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  face of that
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  divinity whatever avataric expression of that divinity or
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  formless expression of
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  SPEAKER_00: that divinity
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  most deeply and purely resonates with you and feels like your
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  truest lineage holder
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  that totalizing inferno the heart of hearts is the only north
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  star that will not
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  lead you astray that will not eat you alive in a certain sense
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  every everything in
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  SPEAKER_00: life
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  is attempting to guide us back to that North star to guide us
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  to the home that we
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  SPEAKER_00: never left here.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now this center of the sun, this totalizing inferno of grace is here.
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  Now as the subtlest of the subtle beyond the normally
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  acknowledged six senses,
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  SPEAKER_00: there are infinite subtle dimensions of
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  beingness here now and that totalizing inferno of grace is
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  found within the
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  subtlest of the subtle within the omni center point that is
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  everywhere present it
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  is a heart of pure love and everything is trying to remind us
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  of that by showing us
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  SPEAKER_00: for example that when you live outside of love when you live
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  in forgetfulness of love,
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  you rapidly find yourself living in a lonely desert of despair.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's one way that experience and life reminds us of its true center,
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  SPEAKER_00: its true heart from which it is emanating.
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  It's like a built-in corrective mechanism,
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  like,
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  oh,
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  careful,
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  don't go that way.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's going to feel like lonely desert of despair because you are
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  forgetting you are vacating your true nature and so that's an
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  attempt to guide you
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  back to that omni center point of pure love and grace that is
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  always and forever
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  here now and so generally would invite you to try to find the
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  pure expression of
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  SPEAKER_00: that north star of that omni center point that most deeply resonates
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  SPEAKER_00: in your beingness, in your soul, soulfulness, your heart.
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  And consider,
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  feel this invitation to give your life over to that at ever
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  deepening levels.
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  This is incredibly powerful,
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  incredibly spiritually expedient,
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  you could say,
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  in terms of
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  liberating and sanctifying your being on all levels the fire of
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  devotion the fire
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  of devotion to a single pointed north star is an incredibly
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  incredibly powerful
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  SPEAKER_00: purifying fire that's why if you can find a single pointed nexus point an
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  expression that you can single pointedly dial in on and you
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  know whether it be
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  Buddha or Krishna or Lao Tzu or Christ or Anandamai Ma or the
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  great goddess,
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  SPEAKER_00: the great mother,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  whatever feels like a pure and transparent emanation of the
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  inmost heart of divine
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  SPEAKER_00: loving grace,
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  SPEAKER_00: I would recommend to find the expression of that,
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  SPEAKER_00: that most purely resonates with your heart and soul,
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  SPEAKER_00: your beingness and
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  SPEAKER_00: Give your life to that.
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  Offer up your total body,
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  your total being,
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  your total self to that and say,
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  thy will be done.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thy will, not my will.
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  SPEAKER_00: Acknowledge that that totalizing inferno of grace knows better than you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Allow that to be done.
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  your true master not in the sense of you being a slave but in
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  the sense of you
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  willingly and humbly bowing down and surrendering and saying
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  yes thank you so much
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  oh dear mother oh dear father you know better than me it's an
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  acknowledgement of
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  SPEAKER_00: the limitation
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  of the finite mortal human mind it's an acknowledgement that
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  there is a profoundly
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  vaster infinite heart intelligence within this omni center
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  point and it is an
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  invitation for that intelligence to begin living and breathing
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  your life and you
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  SPEAKER_00: are not separate from that intelligence so even though on one hand
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  SPEAKER_00: You're inviting that intelligence to be your true master.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're giving your life to that.
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  SPEAKER_00: In another sense,
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  it's like you're giving your life over to your own truest self
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  or your own deepest
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  SPEAKER_00: self.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the deep oceanic self that is far,
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  SPEAKER_00: far more vast,
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  SPEAKER_00: all-encompassing,
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  SPEAKER_00: totalizing,
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  and infinite than this temporary human vessel that you're
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  journeying with.
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  And so,
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  in a sense,
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  you're giving your small self life over to your big self,
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  your true self.
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  SPEAKER_00: And yet,
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  SPEAKER_00: in my experience,
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  SPEAKER_00: and I'm guessing this is true for a lot of people,
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  SPEAKER_00: maybe not for everyone...
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  SPEAKER_00: It's helpful for me to have a devotional relationship with that.
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  SPEAKER_00: On the human level,
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  SPEAKER_00: it's helpful for me to have a sense of a transcendent friend,
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  SPEAKER_00: parent,
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  SPEAKER_00: savior.
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  Even if I know on some level that I am also one with that
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  transcendent parent,
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  SPEAKER_00: savior,
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  SPEAKER_00: oceanic pure beingness and intelligence,
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  SPEAKER_00: my particular psyche is
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  benefits greatly from bowing down and humility and having the
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  sense of the one who
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  I bow before the one who I give it all up to the one who I
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  invite to lead and guide
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  my life and breathe me and sanctify my being on all levels for
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  the highest good of
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  everyone I come in contact with for the highest good of the
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  whole all beings in all
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  SPEAKER_00: worlds.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um,
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  SPEAKER_00: This being included,
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  SPEAKER_00: JB included,
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  SPEAKER_00: my inner child included,
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  SPEAKER_00: offering it all up for the restorative,
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  SPEAKER_00: all-liberating medicine of love to work through me,
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  SPEAKER_00: to breathe through me,
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  SPEAKER_00: and to
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  SPEAKER_00: infuse everything I do on ever-deepening levels.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is the intention.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you start to hold that depth of intention,
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  SPEAKER_00: that depth of prayer,
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  SPEAKER_00: and it's very sincere in your heart,
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  SPEAKER_00: and you pray it forth,
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  SPEAKER_00: you affirm it forth,
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  SPEAKER_00: you invite it every day,
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  SPEAKER_00: that is incredibly powerful.
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  SPEAKER_00: Again, it creates this fire of devotion that
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  can open things within you that you did not know were there
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  that can bring you to
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  your knees weeping weeping as you feel like you know your heart
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  is being punctured
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  by a loving grace beyond all understanding and so that's the
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  invitation search
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  within yourself and discern what is that focal point for you
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  what is that focal
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  SPEAKER_00: point
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe it's something totally formless.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe it doesn't have a name or a form and maybe that works well for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: In my case,
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  SPEAKER_00: for whatever mysterious reasons,
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  SPEAKER_00: karmically mysterious reasons,
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  Jesus Christ in recent years revealed himself as that North
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  Star for me that is
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  SPEAKER_00: mysteriously soul-fitted for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I was raised Catholic.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is ancestral for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's in my blood.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's in my bones.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a way in which it makes sense.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I was disillusioned with the church.
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  SPEAKER_00: I left the church for many years.
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  And so it was very unexpected when this happened for me,
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  when this began to reveal itself.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it has not made me...
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  SPEAKER_00: dogmatic.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't feel a need to create dogmas around this.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't feel a need to create a belief system around this.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know what Jesus Christ is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus Christ is an emanation of a mysterious avataric emanation,
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  SPEAKER_00: a friend,
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  SPEAKER_00: a shepherd,
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  SPEAKER_00: a face of divinity,
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  SPEAKER_00: an emanation of inmost totalizing
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  SPEAKER_00: Love and grace, which is a pure mystery.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know what that love and grace is.
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  I just know that experientially it feels like home and it feels
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  like the most
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  SPEAKER_00: trustworthy love I could possibly fathom.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I give my life to that.
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  SPEAKER_00: So for me, it's profoundly experiential.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's profoundly mysterious and mystical.
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  SPEAKER_00: And yet I can tell you that having that clear focal point of love
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  SPEAKER_00: that good shepherd,
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  SPEAKER_00: that avataric presence,
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  SPEAKER_00: that friend of Christ to focus on,
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  SPEAKER_00: to pray to,
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  SPEAKER_00: to listen to songs of Christ-focused worship and devotion.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like a portal for me,
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  SPEAKER_00: like an access point,
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  an incredibly powerful portal and access point where when I
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  focus on that being of
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  SPEAKER_00: Christ as a
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  SPEAKER_00: a personal emanation or as a formless,
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  SPEAKER_00: all-present Christ fire,
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  SPEAKER_00: it acts as an incredibly powerful portal for me.
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  It feels like a point of crystallization where many different
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  divine qualities and
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  SPEAKER_00: divine medicines are being crystallized into Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: this one portal,
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  SPEAKER_00: this one being who,
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  SPEAKER_00: when I tune into acts as a kind of open doorway and open gateway,
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  SPEAKER_00: ushering me into the center of the sun,
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  SPEAKER_00: the fires of totalizing grace beyond all fathoming.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that is the,
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  SPEAKER_00: the true power of devotion,
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  SPEAKER_00: the true power of devotional practice,
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  SPEAKER_00: Bhakti,
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  SPEAKER_00: Bhakti yoga,
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  SPEAKER_00: as it's called,
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  SPEAKER_00: uh,
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  SPEAKER_00: in India.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I,
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  SPEAKER_00: Offering that as a perspective,
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  SPEAKER_00: a possibility,
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  SPEAKER_00: something to play with,
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  SPEAKER_00: something to feel into,
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  SPEAKER_00: that's incredibly powerful.
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  SPEAKER_00: It goes incredibly deep.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, yeah, I invite you to find whatever that is for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe it's just pure nowness.
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  Maybe it's nowness,
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  however it's showing up,
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  the sound of the rain,
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  the song of the birds.
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  movement of the clouds and the sun you know everyone's going to
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  have a different
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  north star that is most karmically resonant with their being
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  and whatever that
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  north star is it is going to be this nowness i would say
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  because you may have
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  noticed that nowness is where we live nowness is home we've
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  never been anywhere
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  SPEAKER_00: other than now
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  No one's ever found the past or future other than as a thought,
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  a mental image here and now.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this is home.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the kingdom.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is bottomless vastness.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we are here.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in a profound sense, there's nothing to do and no one to be.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is fullness and wholeness.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you are utterly enough.
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  SPEAKER_00: And at the same time, how deeply have you realized that?
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  SPEAKER_00: How deeply has that permeated every cell?
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  SPEAKER_00: There's no requirement for that to happen,
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  SPEAKER_00: but I would suggest that that is an ever-present invitation.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is what this now-ness is whispering to you in a sense.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's knocking on your window.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's inviting you to know it,
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  SPEAKER_00: to know yourself,
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  SPEAKER_00: to know your depths,
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  to allow your true depths to permeate and suffuse your being
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  and dissolve and burn
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  SPEAKER_00: away old snake skin such that you...
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  SPEAKER_00: become a pure, unadulterated emanation of what you truly are.
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  SPEAKER_00: That at least feels like the invitation over here.
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  And I can say that devotional stance of having that
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  single-pointed focal point,
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  SPEAKER_00: that personal and super-personal presence to bow down to,
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  SPEAKER_00: relate to,
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  SPEAKER_00: pray to,
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  SPEAKER_00: dissolve into,
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  SPEAKER_00: open to,
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  SPEAKER_00: is...
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  unspeakably unspeakably precious and and grace bringing heart
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  opening heart
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  igniting uh unspeakably soul powerful for me over here so just
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  wanted to offer that
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  SPEAKER_00: felt to offer that message today family thank you for listening
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  May this ripple forth in a good way for the highest good of all
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  beings in all worlds.
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  SPEAKER_00: May you be blessed.
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  SPEAKER_00: May the road rise to meet you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Peace and love.
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  SPEAKER_00: Peace infinity.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Take good care.