Now the joke about the spiritual journey really is that the answer is always going to be you,
Because you're a divine being in human form,
And the spiritual journey is the process of realizing this.
Is it sort of a comedy?
So it's you.
It's your you-ness.
Most of us in the West,
We've been taught to go up into our heads and try and be objective,
And to look outside for answers.
You know,
That works to a degree,
And it's good to be able to do that,
But it's good to also be able to learn how to return home,
Learn how to understand that it's by loving and accepting yourself,
Your humanness,
Your human and your mammalian nature that you will actually come to tap into your divinity.
It's not separate from that.
I mean,
All teachers can do is keep saying this sort of thing and pointing the finger at the direction.
And there's this great tendency for students to try and hold on to the finger rather than following the direction the teacher's pointing in,
But I get it because it took me years to actually realize that I was an aspect of God in human form.
Right.
And perfect in my imperfections as you are perfect in your imperfections.
Now on one hand,
You know,
Women,
We can be the best students because women give birth.
So there's this,
Even in our bodies and our psyches,
There's this ability to bridge to heaven,
Many of us,
The feminine intuition.
But the thing where it makes it harder for us is just maybe all the socialization of,
You know,
That the women are,
We're not as good.
You know,
The second rate men are not valuable in ourselves.
Men have their conditioning,
You know,
Of teaching about power and control as being so valued.
And that isn't maleness,
You know.
My having two sons,
It was a great gift of teaching me what innocent maleness looked like.
It's just very loving.
And it changed my life to realize that.
Anyway,
It's you male or female,
You're God in human form.
So please put your arms around yourself.
Kind of a loving forgiveness and embrace that,
You know,
Just your you-ness is all right.
And when you,
When really you accept your humanity,
What will happen is your heart will open and tension will leave your body and you will begin to tap into the bigger understanding.
You'll be able to access more your divine understanding.
It's the,
You know,
The self-rejection and the,
Oh,
Trying to fix yourself or trying to improve in an unloving way.
Being unloving with yourself,
That way it never works and it's causing a lot of pain and this is worrying me.
So I'm making this video because it's heartbreaking to me that it's not better understood that really it's just to turn and put your arms around yourself and love and forgive yourself.
And sometimes,
Sometimes it is the best of you that you most despise.
Keep your mind open about where some of your perceptions and intuitions are coming from.
Maybe they're pointing you in a direction that's eager to go.
It's not just wrong.
You just give yourself the benefit of the doubt.
Decide with yourself.
And if you,
You know,
Everybody makes mistakes,
You know,
It's just pick yourself up and keep going.
Anyway,
You know,
My heart goes out to all of you.
Okay.
Hope that warrants more thought from you tonight.