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Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

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

deeper, and to not stay <strong>with</strong> the appearances, but to dig deeper<br />

and see what… feel and see, and see what's ultimately real.<br />

WIZARD: And keep accepting even one's own reaction or<br />

responses to something, even accept that.<br />

MAREN SPRINGSTEEN: Yes, absolutely. Absolutely. And that<br />

took me quite a long time because there was sometimes resistance,<br />

very strong resistance. And the whole experience of illness has<br />

made me much, much, much stronger and tougher in that respect,<br />

to not accept disrespect from other people, and to respect my<br />

purpose and my Self as a spirit. Poor choice of words here, I'm so<br />

much in non-thought that I really find it hard sometimes to find<br />

the right words.<br />

WIZARD: I use the now itself as a role model.<br />

MAREN SPRINGSTEEN: Beautiful.<br />

WIZARD: As the now accepts everything, everything.<br />

MAREN SPRINGSTEEN: Beautiful.<br />

WIZARD: Without any resistance.<br />

MAREN SPRINGSTEEN: Yes, that is the key, that is very<br />

beautiful. And I loved what you wrote on the board one time on<br />

Facebook about faith that faith is really one of the key elements to<br />

all this because the unseen doesn't easily present itself, that inner<br />

sense doesn't open up unless there is deep devotion, or like Trip<br />

developed also at an early age. Unless there is that deep, deep<br />

place that you also have, and I think it just carries one effortlessly<br />

to everything, because one really is so completely unbound and<br />

untouched at the deepest level, and there really is no prodigality,<br />

there is no otherness. Life at its core is just so, so beautiful, and at<br />

the moment it seems like that the appearances play out the<br />

polarities stronger than ever. But I'm so, so grateful to have to<br />

gone through everything, and to be at the point where I'm at, and<br />

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