When true practice is happening, you aren’t in the way. When your attention isn’t muddled by effort or person will, true clarity arises. (Recording taken from an online Satsang with Jon Bernie on November 12, 2022.)

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Returning home allows us to begin to welcome and embrace all parts of ourselves, even those parts that have been marginalized, forgotten about, or that have been in pain.  Recorded Oct 8, 2022.

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What’s the difference between productive suffering and unproductive suffering? With productive suffering, you aren’t fighting against what is by trying to stay in control, but you’re simply being honest about how you feel.

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Do you know what the downside to thinking you know is? It’s that you might be wrong. Instead, allow the vulnerability of not knowing, so that you may truly find out.

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It’s not something that is earned through effort. It is not something achieved through achieved via willpower. Yet, it requires our discipline and attention. Keep returning and allowing the natural healing process that you are to show you the way.

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You already are that which you are looking for, but how do you open to that possibility when the one wants to surrender is also the one who is in the way? What works is dropping yourself — dropping who you think you are and everything you think you know.

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It can be difficult to stop and become available for what you don’t want to feel. However, by learning how to simply be here for yourself, you may find that things begin to bloom all on their own. Recorded 3/22/2022 in San Francisco.

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The way of healing and transformation is not something that you can achieve or understand, yet it is revealed as you relax and simply get out of the way. Recorded 12/18/2022 in San Francisco.

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You honor yourself by being here. It’s a gift that you give yourself, to show up and be present. Recorded 1/8/2022 in San Francisco.

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True surrender is enlivening. It’s energizing. It’s empowering. Because you’re letting go of being who you think you are, as awareness slowly, over time, becomes more embodied in your tissue, in your mind, in your heart. That’s the purpose of our life from awakening on. Recorded 12/4/2021 in San Francisco.

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