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Episode 8: Conversations Exploring Experience Through the Metaphor of an Actor

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The Importance of Courage in Searching Happiness

When self doubt and limiting beliefs come into awareness it would be ideal to have courage to test them in life. There is no separate self either to go towards happiness or away from it remember King Lear feels that he is practicing self inquiry tracing his way back to John Smith but is that really true? Every finite mind longs for freedom or happiness it longs to be divested of its self contraction which is experienced as suffering so this impulse in each of us to go back to our true nature is not really the separate self who seeks happiness there isno separate self to seek happiness It is really our true nature attracting itself back to itself when John Smith has contracted himself as King Lear it is John

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