Welcome to the Commune podcast. My name is Jeff Krasnow. What you are about to hear is one of seven keynote lessons from our 2022 Commune Wellness Summit, which featured more than 30 world-renowned teachers sharing their insights on a wide range of wellness topics.

Now my hope is that by the end of this extended lesson, you will have discovered at least one aspect of your life that you feel motivated to support with more love, more attention, and more balance.

Now, that insight will be different for each person or even each time that you listen.

And this is one facet of why I called this company Commion, because exposure to a multitude of ideas, you could say a biodiversity of ideas, is how we develop

individually and thus as a collective.

Each of these teachers has a full-length course available on commune.

So if you are inspired to go deeper, I highly encourage you to sign up for a free 14-day trial of commune membership

at onecommun.com slash trial. You will find more than 100 courses on personal development,

health, yoga, meditation, and social impact, as well as the full seven-day wellness summit. So without further delay,

here's the second lesson from our 2022 Commune Wellness Summit titled The Spiritual Journey. Welcome. Today we'll be exploring the topic of spirituality, which can be a sensitive territory to traverse. While the language used to describe God, the

divine, the metaphysical, varies across cultures and religions, I personally feel they are all pointing

toward a common experience. And fundamentally, that experience is beyond words, which may be why we use

so many different words in our attempt to describe it. So if you find yourself reacting to the

language used by a particular teacher in these lessons, I encourage you to look for the experience

they are attempting to point to with their words. And if what they are saying still doesn't

land for you, then please take what does and simply leave the rest. We'll begin with Marianne Williamson, renowned spiritual teacher and interpreter of the

spiritual tome, a course in miracles. Now she posits that love is the only thing that is real, and everything else is merely an illusion.

The true self is thus simply love.

When we think and live and act from a place of love,

we are in touch with our true self and feel at home.

Now, I don't claim to have the definitive vocabulary for the age-old question of what is the self,

but I do know that how we choose to identify ourselves has a significant impact on our sense of well-being.

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