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A force that cannot be overruled

Notes related to the podcast, from jan. 12

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Jan 12, 2023
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Photograph: Early Morning. The fountain in Bryant Park, New York City, January 2023

Here are some notes related to the podcast of January 12, in which I discuss a force that cannot be overruled.

The difficulty with my ordinary life is that it’s forever overruling the force of my Being, which I wish to remain in better contact with.

Maybe I have a sense or a taste of that; but it’s weak, and it’s never enough.

Where is the taste of my life?

The essence of it?

If I don't taste a dish on the table, I won't really develop a wish to eat it. Then, if I don't remember what tastes good and want more of it, I won't wish to eat what I need for nourishment within myself.

I need to establish a connection to a force in myself that cannot be overruled. I need to establish a connection deep in my body and my being with the cells, the molecules, the atoms of which I’m made.

There’s a connection to life available here at this fundamental root of Being that has a power of gravity and magnetism in it which is quite different than my personality or my thinking alone. It’s connected in its quantum nature to the source of Being itself.

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