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<strong>Conversations</strong> <strong>with</strong> <strong>Avant</strong>-<strong>garde</strong> <strong>Sages</strong><br />

on the cake. Each one had a collection of pointer gems to share –<br />

the Truth processed through their unique experience. I began to<br />

have much greater respect for my ordinary fellow friends.<br />

Gradually, over time, the circumspection offered by so many<br />

avant-<strong>garde</strong> sages that I had not known, was supreme validation of<br />

the unbelievable reality that had been unveiled. I learned that an<br />

idea I had about Ramana Maharshi as a singular phenomena<br />

taking place once in a millennia was far more commonplace than I<br />

could have imagined. Not only that, there were many people in<br />

my local community so blessed. As a matter of fact, Now, everyone<br />

I look upon is God in a different mask.<br />

Being brought to tears by gratitude is no longer the rare event it<br />

once was. I am grateful to all the avant-<strong>garde</strong> sages we were not<br />

able to include in this book – I truly feel that all of them were<br />

worthy of inclusion. I am grateful to WCOM radio for providing a<br />

free platform for sharing that transformed my life. <strong>The</strong>re is much<br />

gratitude for the focused attention that has been poured on me by<br />

my mentors and by those who continue to mentor me on the pages<br />

of Facebook and at our gatherings. I must also thank all of the<br />

women in my life, who have helped to grow, and my friends, who<br />

put up <strong>with</strong> my ranting at all the potlucks and parties. I just can’t<br />

seem to contain my excitement about this deathless reality!<br />

This is what it all boils down to. <strong>The</strong> whole spiritual exercise is<br />

simply meant to relax the mind and I-thought so that it will take a<br />

back seat to the headless heart of sentience and allow life directly<br />

<strong>with</strong>out the filters of judgment or veneer of words. When we live<br />

this way, or shall we say allow life to live us that way, ordinary life<br />

becomes extraordinary and divine. It’s that simple.<br />

I inevitably take the opportunity to acknowledge each and every<br />

one as the perfect divinity One already is. And every one totally<br />

gets it on some level. <strong>The</strong>y may not have had the pretty words I<br />

have learned to express it, but each in their way is immediately<br />

ready to accept their inherent divinity. And why is that? All of us<br />

already intuit it at the deepest level. It is our condition at birth and<br />

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