Imagined Paris Podcast

"I am romantically exhausted, and I’m tired of being called pretty and left behind for my intensity, and the fear it created in me. I am sitting with my gentle pain, surrounded by the gentle love of my friends, expanding my capacity to love beyond rescue and romance."

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"...is not only as powerful but it is more potent, and it is constant. It is not in between movements and sounds, it is constantly there underneath even quietude itself. The crucial thing about it doesn’t seem to be if it is observing me, but if I am observing it back..."

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"...but since I can never predict my next thought, something else must have been behind it. And I’m okay with it. I trust it: in the context of the present, it has always made the right decision, whether I think first or just do things, including nothing, though we rarely associate doing nothing with being impulsive or spontaneous..."

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"I am one with you and you are as free as I am, though sometimes I forget, though sometimes you don’t remember, though there is nothing to forget or remember when we are one with everything and one another..."

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"I don’t even try to get somewhere or something out of meditating; I’m merely resting in my freedom. So, if you see me as acting unhinged, that’s because I’m on another app – I meant because I’m not trying to impress you – isn’t that impressive? ‘My presence is your present’ isn’t a joke, just as ‘your presence is my present’ is momentarily disappointing! Only joking! Wait, which part is the joke?"

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"If life is a river I am water; when I think I am still, I am still flowing - still wet, at least. But do I know for sure I am water, or am I merely trying to explain my constant wetness? Pun is always intended. I can’t help being wet, I am water! Or am I?"

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"Cut! No more performing. But me performing is part of being myself, as much as my intention to stop performing is part of being myself. Either it’s a curse or a play, I cannot help but be myself. A wave cannot fall out of the ocean."

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"I cried for pages as Goldmund went through the pain of seeing what he previously deemed holy now cold and meaningless and what he used to deem selfish and immoral now pure and healing, in other words essential instead of merely necessary. Am I not still going through the journey of self-acceptance myself? After years of conditioning, which, for the most part, was traumatising and trapping me in guilt and fears, worst of all, of being my true self...."

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"You see how it works? It’s a constant… Ah, I don’t want to call it battle… Process! It’s a constant process dropping the ego, even the superego – the self. They are part of me, they are inseparable, they’re supposed to keep me safe, and moral – wait, moral is just part of safety. I just need to be conscious of them, aware of them and not allow them drive my decisions and actions because it isn’t necessary. They aren’t necessary..."

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"It's raining where I am and I reckon it's the same where you are. It's hardly been two days since I left you and I am okay, almost like for the first time, but I have no time to talk about the series of heartbreaks that visited..."

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