Whenever we do a lot of inner work, we're usually just thinking about how that's going to,

ultimately I think we think it's how it's going to solve our, you know, whatever the issues are that we're facing.

If we're feeling anxiety, if we're feeling lost, if we're feeling depression, if we're feeling sort of existential

confusion, if we are trying to stop suffering and desiring and any of the, you know, pick

your thing, or pick all of them often.

You know, we don't typically go towards inner exploration and meditation in those things because we're feeling great.

We do it because we need some type of relief, whether that be physical or emotional or intellectual or all three.

And, you know, it's, we're driven to do it because we kind of need to.

It's we need to fix whatever the discomfort is.

We need to find some type of resolution. And that's super

valuable, you know, super valuable, of course. I mean, it's, um, it's how we get to become

who we want to be, you know, it's how we become self-enlightening, you know, it's how we understand ourselves.

It's how we start living with more clarity and intention.

And I think you can go really deep in that world.

I mean, I know I certainly have trying to even understand just the essence of self

or essence of my own self. You know, I spent years meditating, just looking deeper and deeper

into what is it that's in there? And by in there, I mean, like, in my, what is my consciousness?

What's happening in there? And by in there, I mean, like, in my, what is my consciousness? What's happening in there?

And what do I actually believe? Who am I? Like, who, who my being? And who am I? And who am I?

And I think for me, you know, a discovery that still serves me until this day was that that sense of self in there isn't particularly stable.

It's always, it's like this kaleidoscope that is always turning and changing colors and shifting and that even one's memories are an accordion of

supposed events that we have recorded and recollected in a part of our mind which are not

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