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Here's your host, Jonathan Fields.

So I spent the better part of the first 40 years in my life looking for a guru, looking

for that person who would just blow me away with her, his passions and kindness and compassion,

vision and guidance.

The one who would give me the answers, who would tell me what to do to get to that place

where I finally felt like I had made it.

There's so many others that I knew had found that wand and their lives seemed just so much

better, more directed, and purposeful, but that never really happened to me.

I had to attend lectures and teaching seminars, you know, train which retreats, and inevitably

I would end up leaving early because some combination of information, integrity, pace,

whatever it was, didn't resonate.

So why can't I find that person?

It finally really dawned on me eventually.

The person I was looking for was the one that I would need to become.

Now that's not to say I don't seek out teachers or desire to learn.

Others can certainly offer guidance and insight, classical texts, things like the Bhagavad-gita,

the Bible, the time at Karand, the Daudi Ching, the land intelligence and humility

and humor to the process of discovery.

And I am and will always be an eternal student.

But I'm not driven by the quest to find and place upon a pedestal any single teacher who

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