I know quite a lot of people who’ve had profound spiritual experiences.

In many cases, it has changed their lives, and they often love to talk about it.

The curious thing, though, is that simply talking about it is not the same as explaining it, or conveying it, or helping other people experience it.

That is a completely different skill.

If you look at teachers like Eckhart Tolle and Mooji and Adyashanti and Byron Katie and Wayne Dyer and Alan Watts, it is obvious that they have (or had) many different ways of talking about this one thing that we mostly refer to as consciousness.

Not just in relation to each other, but also as individuals.

I guess this is what tends to happen when you truly live it and fall in love with it, and the odorless scent of consciousness starts to fill you up more and more.

You start oozing it somehow.

This is the difference between just uttering the words because you have memorized them from a book or video, or serving them with the profound energy of direct understanding.

I have coached many people with a head full of spiritual knowledge, and a life still filled with dread.

Many of them were desperate and exhausted, living in deep frustration because they had worked so hard ‘to get it’, but nothing really changed for the better.

Here’s where a skilled teacher or coach with an embodied knowing or direct realization of this abstract stuff can make the difference.

Because when words fail, when knowledge seems inadequate, it’s the sheer unwavering presence of somebody that can facilitate the shift.

Their raw and real joy, their powerful and electric energy.

Their enthusiasm, and their grounding.

Profound, simple stuff.

It’s like being bumped out of a tight mental rut just long enough to feel what’s beyond that.

It’s as if someone lights a big candle inside of you.

It’s a direct and unconscious excuse to drop the confusion and the sorrow and fall into clarity, at least for a little while.

This is not just a cool story, it’s my daily reality.

It’s my purpose as a coach to help people realize this glowing, ever so subtle awareness, because from that place, everything is better.

Oneness is the ultimate game, and learning how to play it makes the difference.

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