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Wayne invites you to bring your most cherished beliefs to his talks. If you are really fortunate, you may leave without them.

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We had the pleasure of hosting Wayne Liquorman this past weekend. His message is simple and profound. He delivers it unconditionally with love and presence. I turned my video camera on in a spontaneous moment during the weekend to capture him reading a poem by Leonard Cohen printed in Wayne’s book “Never Mind.” Wayne is [...]

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I want to start out here by sharing a story with you. Some years ago I was on the island of Maui and I was giving a talk and I was talking about truth and I was more specifically talking about how the truth really manifests in the context of life after awakening. And what I was saying was what would it be like if we didn’t avoid anything we knew to be true. What if we came out of hiding in all areas of our life, what if we stopped avoiding ourselves completely because that literally is the awakened life. And so I was talking along these lines and the evening went by and there was questions and then the evening ended, and then the next day there was another meeting and someone raised their hand, a gentleman, an older gentleman in his mid life, fifties or sixties, raised his hand and he said something really beautiful, he said ‘I was listening to your talk last night about truthfulness and really being honest, and a willingness to really face ones self as they are and not hide in some past realisation. And he said somehow it penetrated and I went home.

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Email from Paul:
When I mentioned liking and disliking a person I did not mean liking and disliking different aspects of them, I meant liking and disliking all of them at the same time. Yes they do have different aspects which can be liked or disliked but I am not talking about you them, I am [...]

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Email from Paul:
We have been programmed to believe that once we have attained our goals we will be happy. We continue to believe in that belief even though there is no proof that it is so. To the contrary in fact. But we do not want to admit this, otherwise, we are not in control [...]

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So, the mind, which is the intellect, with its will and its capacity for evaluation, must be understood; because, as long as the mind is not understood, with its desires, with its pursuits and the capacity to evaluate according to its prejudices, notions, knowledge – as long as the mind is not understood, obviously there [...]

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