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🗓️ 15 November 2025
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Never hold a thought, never drop the Thread.
Watch and listen to your mind. Notice when it's doing what it does. Notice its judgements, criticisms, projections, conclusions. Don't react. Don't respond. Don't try to stop them. Just notice. And then notice what else is present. Listen to the Silence that the thoughts are coming and going in. Feel that Silence... Joy, Love... the Bliss of the Self. When you feel this Bliss, It puts the thoughts on transparency mode (like your noise canceling headphones). Now you're no longer hypnotized by thinking... It's not the only thing you can hear. Now you can also hear the Silence! You can feel the Thread. And It feels good. Don't drop It.
I love you,
Nik
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Today's Quotes:
Ram Dass' Roommate Story from 'Changing Lenses'
"If you would like to meet your roommate, just try to sit inside yourself for a while in complete solitude and silence. You have the right; it’s your inner domain. But instead of finding silence, you’re going to listen to incessant chatter: “Why am I doing this? I have more important things to do. This is a waste of time. There’s nobody in here but me. What’s this all about?”
Right on cue, there’s your roommate. You may have a clear intention to be quiet inside, but your roommate won’t cooperate. And it’s not just when you try to be quiet. It has something to say about everything you look at: “I like it. I don’t like it. This is good. That’s bad.” It just talks and talks. You don’t generally notice because you don’t step back from it. You’re so close that you don’t realize that you’re actually hypnotized into listening to it. Basically, you’re not alone in there. There are two distinct aspects of your inner being. The first is you, the awareness, the witness, the center of your willful intentions; and the other is that which you watch. The problem is, the part that you watch never shuts up. If you could get rid of that part, even for a moment, the peace and serenity would be the nicest vacation you’ve ever had."
-Singer, Michael A.. The Untethered Soul (p. 17)
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| 0:00.0 | I'm going to be able to be. Good morning. |
| 0:29.8 | God morning to you. |
| 0:33.8 | I'm heading out on retreat on Wednesday, going back to Maui for a week. |
| 0:39.6 | It's a Ram Dass retreat, and I'm super excited. |
| 0:42.6 | And I've been rereading some of my favorite Ram Dass books and just some of his essential teachings. |
| 0:48.1 | I have a book called Changing Lenses, Essential Teaching Stories from Ram Dass. |
| 0:52.7 | And there's one I want to share with you today called |
| 0:54.8 | roommates. And I'm going to have a roommate at this retreat. I've never been on a retreat where I've |
| 0:59.8 | had a roommate, so that'll be interesting. It says I was taking a meditation course once, |
| 1:05.7 | and I arrived five minutes after the course began. You go in silence. You're not allowed to talk to anyone |
| 1:12.5 | else during the course. I had a roommate and he was very neat. He did hospital corners on his |
| 1:18.5 | bed. I decided he didn't like me, but I was a slob and he didn't like me. I spent all weeks staying |
| 1:25.9 | out of the room because I felt like he didn't like me. |
| 1:28.3 | I figured I might snore. Maybe that was it. |
| 1:32.3 | But I just got this feeling that he was so clean and neat that he couldn't like somebody like me. |
| 1:37.3 | I built up this incredible feeling that this guy hated me. |
| 1:41.3 | When the course was over, he walked up to me and said, I want to introduce |
| 1:46.6 | myself and tell you that just knowing I was in the same room with you and sharing this with you |
| 1:52.0 | helped my meditation so much. Thank you. I feel so much love for you. I wish I could have told you. |
| 1:59.2 | I suddenly saw my mind. I had created this incredible |
| 2:03.8 | mountain of paranoia and spent a whole week worrying about it. And it was all in my mind. |
| 2:11.1 | That story is the story of my life. That's me, even to this day when I'm driving. And let's say |
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