Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
than that. And everyone in the room was smiling and nodding
their heads. I recently had a motorcycle accident, and I had to
make a decision about dealing with an insurance company, and
when I just default back into oneness I always know what to do,
what to say, how to be. And you find that when you take the focus
off of yourself into this connected thing that we all are, it's just so
much more magical, and beautiful, and wonderful, and people like
you more, it's more interesting for everyone. This joy comes
bubbling up out of your heart. I mean, it's just fabulous, and so I
would think that the world would quickly run with this, you know.
[Laughs] I'm running with it.
WIZARD: Or sit still with it. [Laughs]
NIRMALA: The only thing I would add is that when it has the
other quality of contraction and limitation, it's not a sign that
somehow you lost connection to the oneness, it's a sign that the
connection has gotten smaller, narrower, more limited. And the
times that it doesn't flow easily, when you feel constricted, or
literally there's like a narrowing of awareness, like a tunnel vision
that happens when you're only focusing on something like what's
in it for me, that is not a sign of anything wrong, or that you've lost
anything. In fact it is the right way for it to feel, it's the way that
you know that your perspective has gotten narrow. The
contraction is how this inner wisdom is getting your attention to
show you that you are seeing only a small part of the truth. (There
is more about the wisdom of the heart's opening and contracting
in the free download of part 2 of Living from the Heart here:
http://endless-satsang.com/free-ebooks-free-spiritual-books.htm)
In that children's game we all played where someone told you that
you're getting warmer or you're getting colder, in order to play the
game with somebody they had to tell you when you were getting
colder. It would have been annoying if they just kept saying you're
getting warmer all the time even when you were getting colder.
And so this heart, the being, this awakeness, speaks to us in this
quiet subtle way by contracting us to show us that we are getting
colder. And so I often say to people the point isn't to always be
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