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What you'll find, if you commit yourself to spiritual growth,

is that it's all about and having nothing to do with ego.

It's all about it, but until you get rid of it, there's no spirituality.

Let's not talk about the word ego.

Let's talk about lower self.

That's something much easier relate to that.

What does that mean lower self?

It means that you're sitting inside. That's where you are. You're deep inside. Way, way, way. Someday you'll find out how deep. And you're noticing what it's like to be in there. You live inside. You don't live outside. You live inside. I told you once before it, and I'd be very blunt.

You don't even care what happens outside. You care about the effect the outside has in the inside.

I guarantee you, you just watch. Oh, but my child's sick. Okay? There are a lot of children that are sick.

Yeah, but this one's affecting me. There are lots of things going on over the place, like lots and lots, right? And the only ones you care about, I'm sorry, I'm not picking on you, is the ones that affect you inside. In fact, if something's happening behind you, you don't know it, it doesn't affect you at all. If you turn around, ah, okay? You live inside. Your consciousness is inside and you don't go

outside to experience the world. The world comes into you. I've discussed that with you. That's science,

that's biology. Your eyes do not look outside. You are not looking outside. What has happened is light

is reflecting off the objects

hitting your optical sensors and sending messages up your optical nerves and then it renders

inside your mind and i know it's very hard to conceive that you are looking at me inside your mind

your mind has just like when you're looking at a flat screen tv, you're not looking at the ballgame in San Francisco. I mean, you are. No, you're not. I don't know. Okay? All I know is what is happening in San Francisco was picked up by a camera's eye and then broadcast through the internet and then it rendered on your flat screen TV. You want to see what you're really looking at? And I'm going to talk about this. I want you to know this analogy. Get up real close to the flash screen TV. Ever do that? Guess what's there? Dots. pixels. There's no ballgame. There's no movie. There's nothing going on, is there? But come back further and it averages

it out and it looks like something. You are inside consciously looking at the rendering of what came

in through light that came in, got broadcast back to your brain and then rendered in your mind.

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