Over the years I learned the art of yogic meditative self-inquiry, to invite self-judgment in for tea and dialogue, where I made a momentous discovery. All my actions to prove myself to be somebody failed before they began, because they were born in conflict. Every action I engaged in to be somebody was a defense against feeling self-judgment. You may believe, as I once did, that you are unworthy, nobody. Oneness with Presence is the freedom that we are all longing for. Our longing comes from the Self, which is looking for Itself, God calling Itself back home. The focus of my work in yoga has emerged from the realization that we all are longing for intimate oneness with Presence.

Upon awakening from the dream of separation, we are able to exclaim as have all the yogis and yoginis down through the ages, 'I am the Absolute Impersonal Presence which is constantly expressing Itself through all that exists.' I, you, we are exquisite expressions of Presence, which manifests as sensation, emotion, thought-the each and everything. Call it Presence, Awareness, God, Consciousness, or Love these are one and the same. Everything is made of the same substance. The practices of yoga are designed to erode and dispel this illusion of being a separate 'me' that currently entrances the mind.Īwakening from the dream of me reveals the paradox that there is no other even as the other appears to be. Everything we feel, see, and touch is the Self intimately being and experiencing Itself. When I am asked, 'What does yoga mean?' I respond that it is the realization of the utter absence of separation.

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