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You leave your nature to serve your culture.
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And what that does is it splits you in two.
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So you're no longer in integrity, you're in duplicity.
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She's a Harvard-trained sociologist, world-renowned coach, and New York Times best-selling author.
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She's written nine books and a novel, and her latest book, The Way of Integrity, will be out this spring.
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Martha is also a life coach and contributor to The O Magazine.
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Her work and multifaceted career has amazed me for years, and I'm so excited to talk to her today.
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 about integrity, befriending suffering paths, taking new ones, and changing parts of our life.
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Martha, it's truly an honor and privilege to be with you today.
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And I'm so glad that we're getting to discuss your amazing new book, The Way of Integrity, Finding the Path to Your True Self.
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Such an important topic, such an important book at this time.
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Thank you for doing this podcast.
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Oh, my goodness.
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The honor is all mine, Jay.
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I'm a big fan.
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 Well, I really do look forward to meeting you in person.
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I feel your energy through the screen already and through your voice.
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And I wanted to start, actually, with a quote I saw from one of your other books recently.
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And it's from your book called Steering by Starlight.
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And here's the quote.
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The variety of an ordinary life is infinite and precious.
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 And I read that and it really struck me because I feel that a lot of what I read today is always challenging me to be extraordinary.
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Or a lot of what I come across or what we see on social media and Instagram is asking people to think big and vast.
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And when I looked at this quote, I'm not saying that it's opposite to any of those ideas.
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I just wanted to understand from you
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 what you mean by an ordinary life, and why is that such an infinite and precious thing, and why is that quote so powerful?
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So let's start there.
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The idea is that definitely, culturally, we are urged to seek the extremes.
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And what is called happiness, particularly in American culture, but I would say culture around the world now, is actually mania.
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And the points that are supposed to be our happiest times
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 points were actually, when I work with clients, they're actually feeling super stressed.
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In my latest book, I talk about this guy who made $400 million in one day when his company went public.
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And he called me at three in the morning, completely stoned, this famous rock band in the background, and he was screaming into the phone, it isn't enough.
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When's it going to be enough?
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 And I was like, dude, all you really like is hiking.
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Maybe go for a hike sometime.
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So that idea that everything's supposed to be super spectacular works against us.
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And the opposite of that, not really the opposite, but the alternative is peace.
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And I have coached everybody from people in prison, murderers, billionaires, successful celebrities, homeless people.
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Every single one of them resonates to the idea
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 I am meant to live in peace.
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That is the one thing that feels true to every single person that I've ever coached.
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And peace is boring to the mania mind, or as you would call it, the monkey mind instead of the monk mind, yeah?
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So the monk mind goes for peace, yeah?
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So peace is flat and dull to the mania mind and to the culture.
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 But when you go there, when you meditate every day, you sit, you know, I spent several years out living in a forest and I would go out and meditate every day.
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And birds would land on me, for example.
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Well, I guess that's not completely ordinary, but I did sprinkle myself with bird seed, I have to confess.
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When that happened, I remember the first time a bird landed on my knee while I was meditating, this little bird, and he looked up at my eyes.
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 And the love I felt between the two of us just exploded my universe.
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It was the most incredible thing.
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Little gray bird, nothing special about it.
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And that started to, that feeling started to come into everything.
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A sip of tea.
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I mean, there was a lemon tree.
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I'd pick a lemon and my heart would explode with the experience of it because the mania mind was finally quiet.
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 And once you get to peace or ordinariness, you find that it is vast and much more interesting than the heights, which are weirdly dull.
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If you repeat them too many times, they get very dull.
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Yeah.
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I mean, so much to unpack there and so much to look at because I find that before I was
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 working with people like the ones that you were mentioning.
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So for a long part of my life, I worked with homeless communities and charity projects and individuals and young people, whether they were in, you know, coming out of gang violence or college issues or early drug use or whatever it may have been.
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And then when you do work with someone who's wealthy and successful and they have that moment that you just explained of 400 million in one day from
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 exiting their company and you know having this moment and it not being enough a lot of people will stop and say well that's.
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Easy for them to say because they already have it but explain to me that that that interesting thing that's happening.
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 And in your book that we're talking about, The Way of Integrity, you talk about the desperation for success.
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And I thought that word is so true.
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There's this desperation for success that exists within all of us, whether we are successful or not successful or on the road.
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Why is that desperation so damaging and destructive for us?
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 Well, what this whole book is about, it's called The Way of Integrity.
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And integrity doesn't mean what most people think it does, at least not here.
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It comes from the word integer, which means one thing.
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And being in integrity is being whole and undivided.
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So there's no part of you that's divided from your true self.
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So when people get, when they're socialized to do something like seek,
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 a certain type of success.
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If that's not according to your true nature and your culture pulls you toward it, you leave your nature to serve your culture.
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And what that does is it splits you in two.
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So you're no longer in integrity, you're in duplicity.
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But you don't actually even know it with the conscious mind.
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You feel it in the heart, you feel it in the body and the soul, but the mind is clueless because it's a cultural tool.
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That's why I love the saying that the mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master.
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 So when we go to serve our cultural ideas of what joy is, we leave our true nature and always, but always that causes suffering, which is a huge gift because suffering is the only thing that will get our attention enough to say, wait, I need to change my life.
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So if it weren't suffering, we would not pay attention to it and we would never find the path of our right self, our true self, our one individual path that no one else can ever have.
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 So yeah, being in whole and in integrity often means turning off cultural noises and tuning back into one's own true nature.
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I love that distinction you make between nature and culture and how our culture can pull us away from nature.
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That's so beautifully said.
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How do we find a culture that reflects our nature?
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Because I find that that's probably one of the most difficult things, that we all want to be
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 in a culture, I guess that's natural to want to be around others that encourage us to become more of our true selves.
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And I've definitely found that in my own spiritual tradition that I follow and the work that I've done.
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But I also found that even sometimes that culture was taking me away from my true self as well.
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And so how do we start to create the community and culture to suit our nature?
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You begin by asking, how do we find the culture that matches our nature?
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 Now, I'm not meaning culture in the sense of, you know, British culture versus American culture.
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I mean, anytime there are two people in a room, culture is the third guest at the table, right?
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Every couple has a culture, every family has a culture, ethnicity, whatever.
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There is no culture that is exactly aligned with your true nature.
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 It just can't happen.
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But as you said, we're social primates.
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So we have this biological desperation to be in culture, connected to other creatures like ourselves.
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In every single case, there will come a moment when you leave your nature to serve that culture.
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And it may just be a little bit, which is fine.
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But as you said, like you left
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 the city culture in London wasn't serving your spiritual self, went to become a monk, clearly that didn't totally serve your whole self either.
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Agreed, agreed.
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And what you are doing is not finding a culture but leading a culture.
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So you come out of those two experiences and you say, I will create
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 something that is true to myself.
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And I love your story in Think Like a Monk about giving your first presentation to an empty room on a college campus and just nobody showed up and you still gave the presentation.
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That's what you did.
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You were purely in your true nature and you didn't care if culture came to be with you at the table or not.
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You didn't care if there was anyone else in the room you were going to serve your nature.
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And initially nobody came.
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 But truth, integrity is the sweetest thing that a human being can find.
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It's the most precious energy.
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It is peace.
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And so as you stayed in that energy, you didn't make other people like you.
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You showed by being yourself how other people could be themselves.
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So you create a culture in which the only ironclad rule is we all support each other in our uniqueness.
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 And that's new.
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That I think is a new cultural form that if it hits a critical mass in our population today, our global population, could actually save the ecosystems, stop war, stop ethnic violence.
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It's a new phenomenon in sociology and your life is an example of how it happens.
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And I hope mine is too.
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 No, yours definitely is.
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Thank you.
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That's very kind of you.
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I'm touched by your wonderful encouragement.
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It means the world to me hearing that from you.
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It's definitely fun living it and figuring it out.
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I've had moments in my life where you rightly said where
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 I was trying to make something me, and it wasn't me.
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And then I was trying to become something that I wasn't, and that wasn't me.
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And then eventually you kind of settle and let go and go, all right, let me just be myself.
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Because that's where I feel most peace, as you rightly said.
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Tell me about how
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 I want to go on to a few concepts that I love from the book, but tell me about how someone can know right now if they're listening.
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If someone's listening or watching us right now and they're thinking, Martha, this is really resonating with me.
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This is really connecting with me.
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How does someone know?
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 whether they're in integrity or feeling unaligned and out of integrity or out of balance in their life?
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How does someone know?
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Because I feel that that diagnosis is almost the trickiest thing to do, because you don't just go to a doctor and get a scan.
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It's something you have to do for yourself or working with a coach, of course.
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But please walk me through that and walk us through that.
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How can someone know whether they feel they're aligned or not?
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 Yeah, the first thing is that you have to notice if there's any degree of discomfort whatsoever, emotional, psychological, physical.
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One of the things I do when I speak in public, there would be people in the audience and I'd stop right in the middle of a speech and say, is everyone comfortable?
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And they'd be like, well, yes, of course.
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And I'd say, no, seriously, are you really comfortable?
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And they would say, yes, go on with your speech.
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And then I'd say,
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 If you were at home in your bedroom with no one else there, how many of you would be sitting in the position you're in right now?
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And no one raises a hand.
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And then I would say, why?
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And it would take them like five minutes to kind of go, oh, it's not that comfortable.
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And the problem is not that they were uncomfortable because people can survive a lot.
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The problem is their bodies knew they were uncomfortable and their minds did not.
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They looked me dead in the eyes in clear daylight and lied.
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 and did not know it.
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That's duplicity.
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The culture says to learn you sit in chairs like this and it goes through a filter.
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Are you comfortable?
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Given that I am forced to sit in this really uncomfortable chair in a fairly uncomfortable position, this is tolerable.
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But the way the brain thinks of it is
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 This is comfortable.
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So the way I get to someone's integrity is what I call a sense of truth.
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And you use the word alignment, which is really important.
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A lot of traditional cultures divide the self into body, mind, heart, and soul.
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So you start with the body, make sure the body is the body comfortable and relaxed.
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Because whenever we tell the truth, I don't know if you know this, everything in our bodies strengthens.
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 Whenever we lie, everything gets weaker.
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Our muscles get weaker.
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We blink more rapidly.
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Our heartbeats go up.
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We perspire more.
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If you want to weaken someone, have them lie.
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They literally become physically weak.
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So once you're telling your own truth, the body becomes relaxed and strong.
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Then the heart, are you emotionally okay?
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And that,
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 You could be sad or happy but there should be an undertone of peace, peace, peace.
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You can be happy in peace and you can be sad in peace.
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The peace is separate.
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And then there's the soul.
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And the way the soul knows truth is, does it free me or does it liberate me?
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Like the Buddha used to say, everywhere you know a body of water is the ocean because the ocean tastes of salt.
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And you know enlightenment no matter what form it takes because enlightenment tastes of freedom.
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 So the soul feels freedom, even if there's terrible fear, terrible pain, whatever, that freedom comes with the truth.
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The last one to the party is always the mind.
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The mind we worship is like, what, what, go back, I didn't get that.
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Because it's drowning in culture, right?
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But when you get the mind to say, oh, this makes no sense to my culture, but my body is relaxed, my heart is filled with warmth and peace, my soul feels free,
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 Okay, let me check the facts because they're probably going to say this is true.
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And once they're all aligned, you have what I call the sense of truth, which is like a click or a chime or a ring.
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We actually use words for that, that feeling of everything.
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It's like a puzzle piece going click in the perfect place.
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And that sensation is integrity.
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 Beautiful, deep definition of integrity.
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I've definitely never heard integrity explained that way, and I hope that's resonated with everyone listening.
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My favorite thing that you mentioned was around how telling the truth strengthens our body and telling a lie weakens our body, and I think you're so right that you can feel that and you can see that and those physical cues that you mentioned, and even on a deeper level.
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 Tell us a bit more about, there's this concept of Mount Delectable that you have from Dante's Divine Comedy in the book.
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I want you to explain that and how it relates to integrity, because that was something that when I was reading it, I thought, oh, this is really going to resonate with the audience.
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So I really want you to share that with them.
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 everybody's a huge Dante fan.
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I have been using Dante's Divine Comedy as my own private self-help book my entire life.
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The whole book is standing on the shoulders of this giant of enlightenment really.
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I think Dante had an enlightenment experience similar to the enlightenment experience of the Asian masters.
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 I think it's a biological thing that happens to people.
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That's a totally different story.
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It's at the end of the book.
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But at the beginning of the book, if you've ever read the Divine Comedy, it starts out with him saying, in the middle of my life, I came to myself in a dark wood and the true way had been lost.
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So he's in this forest.
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It's foggy.
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It's dark.
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It's like, it's swampy.
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There are wild animals and he's confused.
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He doesn't know what he's doing.
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 And I think a lot of people sort of snap into consciousness at some point in their life when they've wandered from the true path and they're miserable, and they don't know why.
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It's very foggy and swampy, but it's just not right.
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And he looks around and he sees this mountain rising out of the murk, and he calls it Mount Delectable.
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Dilettoso Monte, I think is what it is.
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I don't even speak Italian, but it translates to Mount Delectable.
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 And he sees all these people climbing it and the sun is coming up and the mountain looks all golden and glowy.
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And so he's like, that's how I get out of here.
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That's how I get happy.
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So he starts climbing because this is what culture does.
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It gives us those manic high points and bathes them in a golden glow and says, if you get up here, you'll be happy.
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 But as he goes, ferocious beasts keep pushing him back down the mountain.
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And the ferocious beasts all have an emotional quality.
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So there's a wolf that makes him super sad.
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There's a leopard that just makes him desperate, that word again.
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And there's, what's the one that makes him, oh, there's a lion that is so frightening that the air is afraid of it.
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So what happens to us when we start climbing the cultural pyramid is that our emotions say, no,
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 No.
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And we get scared, we get anxious, we get depressed, we don't know why.
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And it drives Dante back down the mountain and there he meets a guide who says, for you,
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 For everybody, the only way out is through.
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We have to go not up, but down.
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We're going into, he calls it among the lost people.
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But I read it as the lost aspects of Dante himself and of each of us.
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Part of us, we have a lost self.
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And to get to it, we have to go into the inferno.
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Not what one typically wants to do, but it's the only way to paradise.
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 Yeah, I love that analogy and how it links to integrity because to me, I've always described it as the mountain and the valley.
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And the idea that we've always felt that our journey has to be forwards and upwards, but actually I think the journey is deeper and inwards.
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And we've always felt that the skills that get us to the top actually is the opposite skills that let us go down the valley.
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 When I was 18 and very, very depressed.
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It's the first time I read the Divine Comedy and I didn't care about the literature.
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I just wanted help.
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And what helped me so much was that he goes down through the inferno.
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Things get worse and worse and worse and worse.
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And they get to the very bottom.
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He and his guide get to the very pit of hell, which is the center of the earth.
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 And the monster Lucifer is there trapped in a lake of ice.
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And Dante just says, well, I guess we're, this is us now.
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And Virgil, his guide says, no, no, no, keep going the same direction.
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He's like, there's no more direction to go.
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And Virgil's like, no, you have to climb on the body of the monster.
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Like he has to face his worst fear.
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So he's lowering himself down.
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And when he gets to the center of the earth, suddenly everything switches and he's going away from the center of the earth, which is up.
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 Tell us a bit more about that.
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I think there are a lot of young people today and people across any age and generation struggling with depression, struggling with anxiety, struggling with stress and mental health challenges.
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What was it for you that was so key at that time in your life that made you feel depressed?
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And then what was it that started to be the cure for that journey?
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 Yeah, the problem was that I was raised in a culture that didn't fit my true nature at all.
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I was raised in the most Mormon of Mormon places you can imagine.
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I have a very, very Mormon family and it just didn't really work for me, but I tried to make it work for a very long time.
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Well, 18 years.
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 No, I kept trying after a while.
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I grew up also, but I was really trying up to that time and it just wasn't working for me.
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At 17, I went off to Harvard, which is about as different from Mormon Central as you can get without going to Pluto.
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So now I was in this complete sort of atheist materialist culture.
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And my only really strong imperative as a personality is just please everyone, right?
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 So I sort of adapted to my culture at Harvard and just sort of fit in there.
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And then I would go back to Utah and try to fit in there.
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And these two selves were so different that I lost my sense of what was true.
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So I just got incredibly depressed, like constant weeping, couldn't function at all, almost catatonic at a certain point.
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And I thought, I've got to figure out what's wrong with me.
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 And I just started turning inward.
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I went straight into the pain.
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I went into my inferno and I went down and down and down until I found the thing that was the most painful thing to me.
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And that thought, it was the thought, I don't know what's true.
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 because I was so split.
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And anybody who's been pulled different ways by different loved ones, different jobs, different national cultures or whatever, if you feel that lostness, that's the dark wood that Dante woke up in.
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I'm so lost and I don't know why.
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And I didn't know what the answer would be, but I knew that the pathway was into my own suffering.
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 And it worked.
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It took a while, but it worked.
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It sounds like it's a scary journey or a journey that requires one to be okay with, as you say in the book, going into the inferno and embracing that fear.
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How can people today feel more comfortable with discomfort?
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Because it's strange, we're talking about
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 getting back to our nature, but it almost takes discomfort and fear and pain to get back to that which seems natural.
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So it's, or explain that journey to me a bit because I'm just trying to, I'm thinking about everyone who's listening and thinking,
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 I don't want to accept that I'm not living in my truth because that's scary.
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That means I might have to quit my job.
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It might mean I have to break up with my partner.
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It might mean that I have to move across country.
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It means
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 a lot of real things.
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And you work with real people all the time, so I know that you're greatly placed to help people.
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But that's what I'm trying to understand, is what does someone do when they're like, well, I can't accept the truth because the truth will ruin my life?
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We are all terrified of the truth that will take us away from the culture we belong to, the culture that makes us feel grounded in the world.
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 if there's a truth that we've hidden because it doesn't work with that culture, we are terrified.
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So where does Virgil take Dante in the dark wood of Eric?
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He takes him to a gate and he says, here's where we're going in.
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And it says above the gate, abandon all hope ye who enter here.
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And Dante's like, I don't think that's a good sign, literally.
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 And Virgil just pats him on the hands and says, trust me, and they go in and it's horrible.
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So what I like to do with clients and what I do in the book is find if you're not completely happy in your life, and I mean completely happy, I think we should be completely happy.
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So find a thing you're frightened to think about.
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 and you don't need to think about it yet, just identify it.
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Like, okay, there's something about my job and I'm scared to think of it.
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There's something about my spouse and I'm scared to think about it.
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I don't want to think about it.
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Don't want to think about it.
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Don't want to think about it.
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The irony is that the fear is only there because we already know what's inside there.
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 What's inside, as you said, what's on the other side of that may mean a divorce, it may mean changing a career, it may mean giving up scotch, you know, and we don't want to.
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We're as comfortable as we can be, you know, clinging to our little dark wood of error things.
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But if we want to be free, the suffering gets stronger and stronger and stronger.
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 And typically there are things that, like in Dante's case, a guide shows up.
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In our case, it might be a book, it might be a teacher, it might be a podcast like yours, but something says, walk up to that gate, just walk up to it.
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And for me, the scariest thing was when I was 25 and I was now getting my doctorate, so my third Harvard degree, and I got pregnant for the second time I was married, and my son was prenatally diagnosed with Down syndrome.
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 The fear was like nothing I have ever experienced.
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And I just walked around Harvard and I looked at these, I looked at the professors, I looked at the students and they all looked really pinched and anxious.
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And I thought, geez, this is my third, I kept thinking if I get another Harvard degree, I shall be happy.
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And it never worked.
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I was getting more and more tense.
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And then I thought, okay, is it possible for a person with Down syndrome to be happy?
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 And everything I knew said, yeah.
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So I thought, OK, Emerson said beauty is its own excuse for being.
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 Joy is the felt equivalent of beauty.
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Maybe joy is its own excuse for being.
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And if that's the case, then anyone who can feel joy belongs here as much as anybody else in the world.
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The fear I went through for the next several months as I waited and they said there was a 40% chance he would die at birth and all these things would ruin my older daughter's life.
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He would ruin my marriage, everything.
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I've never experienced fear like that.
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 And it finally pushed me to a point where I broke.
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I went through the door and I let myself feel all the fear.
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And it was just this, it was exactly the way Dante describes going to hell, just screams and noise and, you know, wailing of it, like all silent, of course, in my own head.
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And then in the middle of that whole cacophony, I heard this one whisper that said, are you sure?
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 Are you sure?
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Are you sure that's true?
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And I was like, I don't know what's true.
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And it said, you may want to think about what's true.
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And that was the first moment that the fear let go of me.
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And I was like, I was in the inferno after that.
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 So, yeah, life will take you there.
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Thank you so much for sharing that with us.
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That's a very real result of going into the fear.
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And I liked what you said there where you just allowed yourself to feel it and then ask whether it was true.
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And the part that really struck me from that story was the idea of when you were saying that, I asked if he still had a chance to be happy, and the answer was yes.
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And I thought, wow, like that's, it's again, again, it comes back to the same point of disconnecting from the culture.
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 Yes.
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Because the culture makes you believe.
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I remember, I mean, not in any comparison at all, and it's not similar, but just to share it, like, I remember when I left the monastery, people always told me that I wouldn't be as close to my teachers anymore.
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They said, well, you know, if you move on, you know, you're going to get lost in the material world and Maya, as it's called, illusion, and you won't be able to maintain this.
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 And I remember saying to myself, I don't want to let go.
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And this was so important to me because I'd found my soul teachers, and I want to speak with you about that, around soul teachers.
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And it was really funny because constantly in different stages of my life, people have said things to me, and that culture is saying something to me.
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 And actually, culture saying it to me has been a beautiful reminder for me to not make that my reality.
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Right.
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So instead of feeling bitterness towards culture, I feel this like gratitude towards culture because every time they say to me, they're like, Jay, you know, when you get married, you'll have less time for spiritual things.
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I was told that when I got married.
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 And I was like, oh, OK, that's a reminder to me to not do less spiritual things.
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So I'll make sure that I'm more grounded in my spiritual practice.
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People said, oh, Jay, when you build a business, this will happen.
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When you become an entrepreneur, this will happen.
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And that was always a good reminder of what I didn't want to let happen.
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And that was such a beautiful way of responding to it.
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But you talk about meeting soul teachers.
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And when you were sharing earlier, I do feel it's beautiful
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 to find teachers in podcasts and books, but I do feel, and I was lucky growing up in a tradition where mentorship was encouraged and highly, it was part of the culture, and it was a good part of the culture, so I really strongly believe in coaching.
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Tell me about how someone finds their soul teacher, knows it's their soul teacher, as you talk about in the book, and give us some of those insights from a few of these chapters so that people who are listening can start thinking about that, because I think, again, culture hasn't made coaching
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 or mentorship normal?
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Not at all.
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And so we kind of feel like we're just figuring it out.
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And as many years after which people are even okay accepting a teacher, they feel that to be an alien concept to accept a teacher as an adult.
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Explain to us why it's, I feel like having a human coach is, there's nothing better than that.
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It needs to be beyond the book, beyond the podcast and the book at the starting point.
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 There's another level as well.
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Yeah.
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And what I found is that if you walk up to the gate of your fear and you surrender to the fact that you're afraid and you just ask or set an intention, I would really like some help here, please.
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A teacher is always sent, but it has to be asked for from a place of peace.
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This is what I wanted to talk about with the question about desperation.
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We tend to only ask for help when we're desperate in this culture.
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 Yes.
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Western materialist culture, which is very linear and doesn't accept having to go through cycles of change and needing teachers at each cycle and all of that, which is what I teach coaches to do, get people through those cycles.
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But when we're desperate for it, this is what I believe.
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I believe that every time you pray or desperately ask the universe for anything, it is immediately sent to you.
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The answer is always yes.
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And the response is always immediate.
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But
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 it always gets sent to your true home address, which is peace.
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If it were to send what you want to desperation, that would make you move into desperation and just sit there gathering up your stuff.
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But instead, if you can be at peace, so you walk right up to your fear, find a moment of peace, and it doesn't have to be a day, it doesn't have to be an hour, it doesn't even have to be a minute.
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It has to be a moment of peace when you say, I need help, please send teachers.
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 And sometimes, for me, they first came in books because that's how I allowed it.
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Nisargadatta Maharaj, one of my favorite soul teachers.
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And let me tell you, when I saw his book in a cabin in South Africa, I stole it.
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 I was like, I can't stop reading this.
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I need it.
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So I mailed them another copy later when I got home, but I'm like, I can't, I can't leave this book behind.
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And sometimes, like my son with Down syndrome, Adam, he was the teacher who came for me.
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Turned out to absolutely transform my life and bring me so much.
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The first bestseller I wrote was a book about how he came into my life and the magic he brought with him.
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Let me tell you one of my little Adam stories.
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 Once I was listening to a recording of the different planets made by the Voyager spacecraft as it went past, it would take radio signals from the planets and transform them into sound.
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And they sound really weird, like the Earth is like, wow, wow, wow, wow.
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And part, like some of the moons of Jupiter go, bing!
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 So my son was walking past as I was playing these.
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He was like 20 and he doesn't talk very well.
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And he came into the room and he said, wait, what are those sounds?
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I have those sounds in my body.
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And I said, you do?
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And he said, yeah.
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Where are you getting them?
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And I said, they're from the planets.
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And he was like, oh, right.
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I was like, why do you?
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He said, it's a call, it's a message.
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 And he put his hand up to his head like a telephone receiver and I said, the planets are sending us a message that's in our bodies?
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And he said, yes.
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And I said, well, what is the message?
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And he said that we're safe.
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 And he just walked away and every now and then he'll just pull one of those out.
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And so he was my teacher.
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And once I realized that I could be taught by a newborn with Down syndrome, I was looking for teachers everywhere.
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And as long as I stay in peace, they pour into my life.
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 You poured into my life and I'm so glad to be talking to you but through your books and podcasts you do.
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I mean every communication you have with your soul teacher feels like this.
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You feel that ring of truth.
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 this person, this book.
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And then weirdly, like I love Jill Bolte-Taylor, the Harvard neuroanatomist who had the stroke.
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Have you talked to her ever?
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I haven't, no, I haven't.
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She's awesome.
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But she lost the left side of her brain and had to build it back.
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And the right side of the brain is in the presence of God at all times.
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So she came back very different.
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And I've been quoting her stuff and learning from her, reading her books.
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And the day before yesterday, she just called me.
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 She just zoom called me and I was like, okay, why are you calling me?
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And she's like, I don't know.
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I just wanted to talk to you.
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Like, are you serious?
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And she told me all this stuff about neuroanatomy that helped me understand myself.
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And that's what happens when you just say, I'm going to stay in peace and ask for teachers.
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 Okay, you just blew my mind with all of that and how you so clearly made the proposal to us all that we can only receive our true teachers and our soul teachers when we're at peace.
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And actually, if we ask for them out of desperation,
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 and they'll go to that home address or shift us.
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That blew my mind because that made so much sense more than intentions.
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It made so much more sense than seeking the right people out.
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That idea of what place, what space from which are we asking for what we're asking for,
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 And you're absolutely right that we only ever ask for help when things go wrong.
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We never ask for help when things go right.
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And also, haven't you often found that a lot of our asking is a demand and not a sincere request?
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Like it's a demand of like, why is this not happening to me?
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 I need this right now.
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And it's the antithesis of peace, as you're saying, is where we need to be.
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It's the anger, it's the pain.
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It's not asking from a place of a sincere request, which is often what's needed even to get your friend turned around.
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But you know what?
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Here is how miraculous and benevolent the universe actually is.
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When you go to peace,
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 the things you screamed for in your tantrums, if they're right for you, will be there, or they will come there.
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Like every childhood wish that I'd ever had, when I started, I did a sort of monastic period of my life.
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When I was 50, I just moved out to the woods and spent six years meditating and tracking bears.
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And everything I had ever wanted started to come to me.
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 It was bizarre, like people like Jill Bolte Taylor, but this type of miracle started happening over and over and over again.
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And I would say to the universe, but I was really fussy when I asked for this.
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And it would just say, oh, sweetheart, we want you to have everything.
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Why do you think pain exists?
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So that you'll ask for things so that we can demonstrate our love for you by giving you those things when you're in peace.
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 And so try going to peace and just staying there and see if things you asked for when you were a child, when you were an adolescent, when you were young, if those things don't come and find you.
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I wrote this book just because I wanted to be absolutely sure I was telling the truth.
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I didn't want magic miracles.
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I use those words because stuff like that happens to me a lot.
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And I wanted to get out of it.
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I wanted it to just be the science.
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Let's just talk about the facts.
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Truth, truth, truth.
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 And I went deeper into integrity than I'd ever gone.
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And the miracles and the magic in my life went absolutely bananas because I was in peace.
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I was in that ring of truth all the time and holding myself there.
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Whoa!
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 You want to manifest a Ferrari?
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Get some peace.
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Is William Shatner's best acting work in Esperanto?
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 When the Taliban banned music in Afghanistan, millions were plunged into silence.
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Radios were smashed.
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Cassettes burned.
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You could be beaten or jailed or killed for breaking the rules.
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And yet, Afghans did it anyway.
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 The danger they endured.
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They said my head should be cut off.
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The joy they brought to the nation.
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You're free completely.
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No one is there to destroy you.
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I'm John Legend.
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Listen to Afghan Star on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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 What are the things you think we should be asking for, if asking at all?
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Because, like you said, that if you're in peace, you can probably attract anything you ever wanted.
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 But as we spoke about earlier, sometimes everything you ever wanted isn't what you really need and isn't that satisfying as you expect it to be.
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Is there a better search that we should be on that then helps us?
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It's kind of two ways.
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So here's my hypothesis, and I'd love for you to dissect and destroy it if it's terrible, but I'm just offering it.
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That's what I live for.
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I want to destroy it.
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 As an idea, destroy was a strong word.
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It was a strong word.
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If we need to dissect it or take it in a new direction, that's better.
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That's better.
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Let's use that.
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One of my teacher's teachers would often say that anything material in your life is like zeros.
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So like lots of zeros.
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So every time you have a new material accomplishment or a material success or a material goal, it's like a zero.
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 And all those zeros, if you look at them as they are, they're not valuable at all.
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They actually don't satisfy the soul and the heart and the example that you gave earlier on.
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But actually, if your integrity in this language, if your spiritual connection is aligned, then that's like that one in front of all those zeros.
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And all of a sudden, all those zeros have meaning.
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 Yeah.
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And I remember hearing that as an 18-year-old and thinking, oh, that makes so much sense because I meet so many people who have all the zeros in the world.
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But they themselves will tell me, and even more so now, where people I'm working with and coaching will tell me, Jay, this means nothing.
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Like, this doesn't work.
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 And now they're seeking that spiritual connection.
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And so that's where I'm seeing it, that actually all of this can be given value when we have this pursuit aligned and in integrity, but all of it loses value when we don't have that.
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 It's really beautiful.
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And it's, it's, I believe that suffering has two functions.
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And one is to get us back into alignment.
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And the second is to push our imaginations to, to play with this material universe in a, in a creative way.
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So every person I've ever coached who has suffered greatly for whatever reason, and then found peace makes more peace with the suffering they've experienced.
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Can you say that again?
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That was beautiful.
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Every suffering is the raw material for its opposite.
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 The more time you spend in fear, if you go to peace, you have more courage than others.
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If you've spent more time in depression, you go to peace, you have more joy.
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You spent time in rage, you go to peace, you have more ability to be peaceful and to spread peace.
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One of my favorite examples is the spiritual teacher, Byron Katie.
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Do you know of her?
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Yeah, I've interviewed her.
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She's been on the podcast.
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 I was talking to her one day and she was a woman who was in horrible, horrible depression, every kind of pain, physical, mental, everything.
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And then she lost the ability to believe her own thoughts and was suddenly in a space of complete peace and bliss.
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 is what connects us to culture.
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And once she lost the ability to be in culture, she was her true self.
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And I was talking to her one day and she said something about being, you know, the transformation.
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And I said, well, you can't have been that bad.
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And she looked at me very seriously and she said, no, I was a very bad person.
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 And she was absolutely serious.
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She is the most delightful, joyful, blissful human being you can imagine.
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And it's because she was so miserable that when she came to peace, her life exploded into joy.
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So whatever suffering you've got going on, whoever's out there listening, come to peace.
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And yes, a one will appear in front of those zeros and you'll be richer than you ever imagined.
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 And what are some of those beginning steps towards peace, Martha, that you beautifully lay out in the book?
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But tell us some of those steps to peace, because I think when we think of peace again, and this is why going back to the concept you've shared with us, when we think about peace, the problem is the understanding we have of peace is the culture's definition of peace, which is kind of like,
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 You know, like that's what peace looks like, like peace looks like this, this very like, you know, perfect tranquility.
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And that's the challenge that when you have that cultural
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 image and vision of what peace looks like, you don't allow for the pathway to peace to look like that.
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I always feel like we have two things we're always looking at, our vision of reality and then the actual path we're walking.
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But the actual path to peace doesn't look like the vision to peace, so we leave it.
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We abandon that path.
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Google peace and you get 8 million pictures of women sitting on a deck in the sunset.
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And it's like, that's not
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 That's not peace, that's boring.
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Actual peace is that alignment I was talking about.
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The feeling that our bodies, hearts, minds, and souls are all working in the same, they're working like a team of horses that are exactly matched and they will go all kinds of amazing places.
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Like they'll push you into action as surely as they'll push you into rest.
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You know, I had an autoimmune disease, several actually,
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 From the time I was 18 to the time I was about 30, I was almost completely bedridden and in constant pain, physical pain.
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 So it was not a fun time.
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Raised my kids on a king-size bed, basically.
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And as I was trying to find my way out of that, what I realized is that my body was responding to whether or not I was in the truth.
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I had to connect my story in my head to the truth that my body was telling.
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And then when I started following my body, heart, and soul, as well as my mind, I locked into this thing that I call integrity in this book, but it's also peace.
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But it was,
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 At that point, I remember I got diagnosis for one of these, they were all terminal progressive autoimmune illnesses with no cure.
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And I was resting, I was resting, I was in peace, I was in peace, I was meditating.
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What else do you do when you're bedridden for 12 years?
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But they'd given me a hotline that I could call.
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I called this hotline and I said, I've been resting and resting and resting and the pain is getting worse.
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And the nurse on the hotline said,
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 when your soul wants to dance, then lying down is effort and dancing is complete perfect peace.
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Like dance, get up, move, even if it hurts, do what your soul wants.
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And it completely knocked me out of that whole yoga pose thing, nothing against yoga, but I realized that true peace pulls us
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 through life by all four of those body, heart, mind, soul, and into joy and into wonderful, amazing situations is put you behind that microphone right now.
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Like it's not static.
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It's ecstatic.
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It's dancing.
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 Tell me about the opposite, Martha.
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I'm intrigued by something because I learned about, and I'm sure with your studies, you've come across this too or studied with it.
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I was very much trained in the path of bhakti, bhakti yoga, which is the path of devotion and love.
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And, or a core idea is that when one has true love,
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 and true compassion and true joy, one can even experience stress for the object of our love.
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Or the idea of stress doesn't feel like stress anymore.
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And the closest thing can be described, and you've lived this through your beautiful examples and stories in one of the deepest ways.
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The closest example or comparison that would be made is the idea of love of a mother for her child.
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 Like that level of love that like no matter what challenge this is, this is love.
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Like, you know, it's not coming from anything else.
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A mother's not looking for praise or validation or for the child to do everything perfectly.
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A mother's love is beyond.
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I mean, I feel that from my mother.
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I grew up with that kind of love from my own mother.
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So I know it exists.
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Tell me about how you
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 understand that with the movement towards stress and peace?
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Is that somewhere, where does that come about?
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Where do we get to that point where we start to see stress as peaceful because actually it's based on love?
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There's a word in psychology called eustress, E-U plus the word stress, which is the opposite of distress.
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So distress is discomfort and eustress or positive stress is... Like eudaimonia.
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Is that where it comes from, the E-U or no?
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 Yeah, it's like euphoria or utopia, yeah.
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So eustress is positive stress and it's the difference between being stabbed in the gut and being cut open by a surgeon to heal you.
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Like it could be the same type of pain.
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I was walking down the street one day and I tripped and turned my ankle and I was very worried that I'd hurt it.
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And then later on in the day, I got a massage.
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 And I realized during the massage that the massage was actually more painful than my ankle, but I was interpreting it as helping me.
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So I loved it.
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I was like, deeper pressure, please.
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You know, it was all about how I was thinking about it.
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And if we apply that to stressful situations, like somebody screaming in your face, you can actually go into that and go,
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 Where is the beauty?
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Where's the lesson?
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Where's the healing?
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There's always a healing in it.
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You can always find, if you're caught on anything negative, you know something in you needs to be healed.
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 Because if nothing needs to be healed, nothing hooks you like that.
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Nothing is distressful.
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You look at it and you go, ah, this could go well.
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And you're like, you're such a living example of that.
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It's so funny.
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I think you hit the nail on the head when you said the words, and I want everyone to write this down.
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 It changes when you interpret it as helping.
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That's the key.
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Like what you just said there with the massage example, which I thought was brilliant, is even when we're experiencing pain, when we interpret that as helping us, not hurting us, then it heals us.
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 And as soon as we interpret it as, this is hurting me, it actually stops helping us and stops healing us.
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Because at least in the massage, you know someone you're working with has expertise.
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But sometimes when we're being badly handled by culture or people around us, we think that they're damaging
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 But even then, there is help there.
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And that's what you're pushing us to seek, which... You can always find it if you're willing to walk the path of your integrity.
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Don't get pulled into the story of the culture.
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Find integrity, find integrity.
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So you find all...
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 the places inside yourself where what you believe is not true for you.
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And this is the source of all suffering.
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And I say this after 30 years of doing this coaching stuff.
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The single reason for psychological suffering is believing something in the mind that is not true at the deepest level.
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 Once, and that's going through the inferno, you get rid of those lies.
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And then Dante walks up purgatory in the next part of the Divine Comedy, which is where you take the new truth that you found in your own heart, mind, body, and soul, and you begin to live it, even if the people around you don't agree.
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You know, in your case, even if your parents were like, becoming a monk, what's wrong with you?
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Or your spiritual friends going, don't get married.
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 you're walking your true path, that's purgatory and it strengthens you.
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You go upward and upward and upward.
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And when you reach the place where your thoughts are completely clear and your actions are aligned as well, so now you've put activity into it, you've put the joy of movement in peace, the ecstasy of that, you get to the top of purgatory and Dante just flies off into paradise at this point.
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And I do believe he had
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 an enlightenment experience.
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And I was just talking to Jill Bolte-Taylor about how that works neurologically.
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It's a real condition to which we are biologically predisposed.
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And that's what everyone is actually in their heart and soul trying to find.
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 Beautifully said, Martha, absolutely beautifully said.
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And I only wanted to add this because I think it relates to what you were saying there, is that often people feel that as you go on that journey, at one point, everyone's going to agree with you and everyone's going to somehow love you and everyone's going to say, and that doesn't happen.
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And, you know, that's,
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 no matter how much in integrity you're living, that doesn't mean that everyone loves you, believes in you, and thinks you're amazing.
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 Can I tell one more story?
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Oh, please.
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I'd love for you to.
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Yes, absolutely.
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I had to take it there because I think we also, again, have this culture view of if I live in integrity and if I'm aligned and if my actions are perfectly manifesting and I'm spirit, then all of a sudden everyone's going to believe in me and agree.
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And I haven't experienced that at all.
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The more I've gone into integrity, the more I realize
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 there are more people who have issues with that.
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So it's not become easier.
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So I'd love to hear your story.
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Okay.
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So when I was 29...
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 I decided that I was not going to tell a single lie for a whole year.
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It was a New Year's Eve resolution.
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Later on, when I needed therapy from this, my therapist told me that my biggest problem was I kept my New Year's resolutions, but I did not tell a single lie the year of being 29 to 30.
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I don't tell lies now either.
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I just decided no lies at all.
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 I found my true self that year.
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That was the year my body started to heal.
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I also lost my religion, my family of origin, which is very deeply part of that religion, so complete no contact.
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Every friend I'd made growing up before the age of about 17, my job and my marriage, and I realized I was gay.
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This was not a year of everybody coming to my side.
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This is what I came out thinking.
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 For the first time in my life, I was healthy and happy, and there was no part of culture that was on my side.
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And I realized that if I want to walk my particular path, I have to give up.
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Your integrity will give you every single thing you need to be happy, everything, the wildest dreams, the deepest love, the most joyous experiences, but it will cost you absolutely everything else.
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 And yeah, my whole life changed from that.
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And that's when I started coaching and that's when I started getting published and everything just went from there.
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But I was stripped down to bone by total integrity.
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I don't recommend that by the way, it's too rough.
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 Martha, this has been such a joy speaking with you and learning from you today.
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Everyone, I've been talking to Martha Beck, The Way of Integrity, Finding the Path to Your True Self.
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The book's available now.
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Please, please, please make sure you go and study this deeply.
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This isn't one of those books that you're just going to read once and kind of put it on the shelf and think, oh, that was cool.
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It's going to be a book that you study.
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It's a book that's going to make you reflect.
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It's a book that you want to sit with.
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Use it as a workbook.
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 Use it as a book where you're, and I love what Martha's done here, there's so many fantastic reflection moments and questions that I really think you need to sit with, and you may even sit with some of them sometimes a day, sometimes a week.
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Allow yourself to really use this book as a workbook.
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 I can't stress enough how I think how powerful it would be to feel like you're living in integrity, as well as learning all the amazing new skills and all the passion projects you want to build and all that kind of stuff you want to do.
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It comes from this.
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This is actually the root of it.
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And sometimes when we don't start here and we get started on everything else,
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 We either get everything and it doesn't fulfill us, or we don't get it at all because we weren't asking from a place of peace.
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And so I really want you all to start here.
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And Martha, as you know, as you listen to the podcast and sharing your wonderful thoughts about it, we end every episode with a final five, which is our fast round questions.
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Every answer has to be one word or one sentence maximum.
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I always break the rules because I get too intrigued.
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 But let's see how I go.
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So, Martha, these are your final five.
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Are you ready?
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Yes.
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Awesome.
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Okay, so question number one.
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What is one widely accepted rule that you always break?
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Please, people.
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Sorry, that was two words.
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That's a great answer.
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No, that's a great answer.
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Very good answer.
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Okay, second question.
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What's the best piece of advice you've ever received?
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Trust yourself.
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What's the worst piece of advice you've ever received?
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 Trust me, find someone else.
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That's so good.
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That's so good.
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All right, question number four.
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What's one thing you know to be true, but a lot of people may disagree with you on?
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We are all perfect.
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Beautiful.
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And if you could create one law that everyone in the world had to follow, what would it be?
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Be nothing but yourself.
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 That's kind of a theme.
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Like you could have just asked one question.
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I only have one answer.
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It's a great answer.
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And I do think that the journey of life is for that reason.
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And it's a great answer.
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And I think today we hear it in a very
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 Be your best self.
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We're here in quite a fluffy version, but the way you talk about it is that deep valley version of going down into the inferno, and I love it.
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Thank you so much.
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Martha, thank you for being a guest on On Purpose.
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Where can people find you?
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Where can people follow you?
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Where would you like people to connect with your amazing work beyond the book that we obviously want everyone to get?
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 all.
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Thank you so much.
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Just go to my website, MarthaBeck.com, or you can crawl through the snowy fields of Pennsylvania and try to find my house, but I'm not going to give you the address.
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Just go to MarthaBeck.com.
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 I love that.
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MarthaBeck.com.
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Martha, this has been amazing.
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I really hope we get to talk a lot more and I may be reaching out to you for a few more personal questions that I have too.
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I would love that.
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I've really enjoyed our time together today and I really look forward to being in the same room together.
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I really hope that this has served you.
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I hope that this has served everyone who's been listening.
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 I hope that this helps you find the path to your true self and your path to integrity.
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So, Martha, thank you again for sharing your gifts with us.
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Thank you so much.
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Thank you everyone for listening.
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Make sure you share this on social media.
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Tag us with what you learned, what you gained, because I love noticing what you're learning, what you're taking away from these episodes.
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And make sure to come back for our next episode.
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Thank you.
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 Okay, I have some big news.
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Thanks to all of your support, I have been nominated for a Webby Award, pretty much the internet Oscars.
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Actually, we have, on purpose, the podcast has been nominated in the category of best health and wellness podcast.
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If you enjoy this podcast,
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 If it makes any difference in your life and has ever had an impact, it would mean the world to me if you vote for us for the People's Voice Award at the Webbys.
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The link is in the caption.
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Please, please, please go and vote.
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It will take all of 20 seconds and it would mean the world to me if you come and support me and my team.
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Let's go win a Webby.
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Check out the link in the caption.
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I can't wait to see if we get number one.
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Fingers crossed.
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 At one of the most famous restaurants in the world, there's a table in the corner where the most incredible conversations on the planet are happening every week with owner Ruthie Rogers and amazing guests like Martha Stewart, Jimmy Fallon, and Paul McCartney.
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 We've saved you a seat.
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Ruthie's Table 4.
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Listen to Ruthie's Table 4 on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.
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This is the story of how a group of people brought music back to Afghanistan by creating their own version of American Idol.
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The joy they brought to the nation.
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You're free completely.
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No one is there to destroy you.
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The danger they endured.
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They said my head should be cut off.
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 I'm John Legend.
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Listen to Afghan Star on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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 Guess what, Will?
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What's that, Mango?
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I've been trying to write a promo for our podcast, Part-Time Genius, but even though we've done over 250 episodes, we don't really talk about murders or cults.
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I mean, we did just cover the Illuminati of cheese, so I feel like that makes us pretty edgy.
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We also solve mysteries like how Chinese is your Chinese food and how do dollar stores make money?
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And then, of course, can you game a dog show?
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So what you're saying is everyone should be listening.
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Listen to Part-Time Genius on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.