Discovering the Remarkable

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Thanks, Lisa. Lisa LaRose. Lisa LaRose. Lisa LaRose.

Hello. Welcome. Happy Valentine's Day. Happy Valentine's Day.

I just wanted to start with something Lisa, because I felt that I got a rhythm with you. Then we can introduce John Dago, who's written numerous books, and what it means to wake up, what it means to live in this other experience. I call it the other experience, because it seems like we get involved in this busyness of life and so much happening. And we've suffered this quality called the remarkable, which I would...

I want you guys to explore with me today with myself and Lisa and soon, John Dago. You offer many books, including East Meets West. He's dedicated himself to this teaching, this experience. So I thought I would invite you guys into my grandparents' house in far still from New York.

I thought I would start there. I thought I'd start someplace. I thought I'd just start there. So I go into my grandparents.

I was very close to my grandfather, my grandfather, in a very different way than my parents. I felt the quality of pleasantness. I felt something different, which is sort of how I went into this conversation with you guys. My grandmother, I never saw my grandmother stand up.

She was diagnosed with a medical condition. She never stood up. I saw a barely stand up point. So my grandfather was an electric engineer.

And I felt this connection with him. Early on in my life, it seemed like what people were thinking about often and what they were focusing on. I just felt it was something missing. I couldn't describe it.

I couldn't describe how it was missing. But I felt it was missing. I felt something was missing. Nothing was vacant.

And what was ahead of me was a certain script, a certain way that my mother told me to live and people around me. And yet I didn't notice they were particularly happy. But it seemed like they had an idea about how to live. They had an idea about the script.

And when I noticed certain people, it's funny. This is something I heard about when I was, I can say it was a teeny. I heard about this man who was hit by a, I don't mean to depart from my grandfather's apartment, my grandmother's apartment. I was giving a feeling of what it was like to kind of be in the world.

I kind of always had a wondering sense of something a little different. And I didn't really know how to put it into words. But I could see it. I could sense it.

And I heard about this story. I'll just sort of, this men's story to go to. But this one struck me early on. It was this man who was hit by a helicopter propeller.

It was a pretty tragic devastating injury. But the surgeon that worked with him, worked with him on, it was an emergency situation. But somehow he got his, he engaged this guy's remarkable mind. You know those moments when your remarkable mind is another aspect of you that's sort of the on your words and beyond your usual.

And beyond, if you will, terminal normality. It's sort of like you in a different state. When you see things clearer, you sense things. And you're awake in a different way.

The surgeon, when I read about the surgery. It was a relationship you had with a patient that was just remarkable. And I just got really fascinated early on in my team. What this was, what is this other kind of thinking or awareness, what you call it, that's different than this dead thinking that seems to exist that people live by or first by, make relevant by.

So this series with John and Doggo and Lisa LaRoe and you, it's really an exploration and the experience of the remarkable, the ability to bring it in, the ability to have a, to find a language for it, that's quite a language for it. Because sometimes it's, we don't have a language for it. We have a sense of it. And there's moments, and I hope the series, I intend the series is one of them, where you can have a sense of poem in this experience as a remarkable, I'll be more stories.

I wanted to turn it over to the Valentine's Day girl herself, Lisa LaRoe. I just assigned you with that Valentine's Day girl. I'm not sure why by the way. I just did that.

I hope that I did well to dress for you. It was okay. Sure, absolutely. Okay, great.

So I guess since you've been inquiring, you know, I know that you're someone that's been inquiring and kind of wondering how to experience the remarkable and you have a listening for it. What is like, before we roll up the royal chair for John here, he might be dancing, I don't know, he comes to the table and shares his experience. What was the first moment of your life? I know this is the question.

Yeah, that's a remarkable. Do you remember this day-wishing moment or OE's or just recently? Well, you were two and a half and you're in a month, maybe the princess crying, like, what was the moment where you said something maybe different? Or you were curious, or you couldn't just go get it the next, you know, whatever it was, the next thing in the process.

And someone tells you at some point later in your life, it's going to be better. Or someone tells you something, and you know it's not true. You know what's mechanical. That is an amazing question.

And actually, when you ask me, it takes me back to preschool. I was fortunate I went to a school that was called The School for the Allied Arts. So we had drama and painting and French and all sorts of creative things. It wasn't a normal preschool and it was in a museum.

And so part of what we did on a weekly basis is we would be able to walk through the museum. And there were so many remarkable things with a history, with a story. And I think that early was my whole introduction into the remarkable, that there was beyond the confines of the world that we grew up in. There were cultures that were far beyond what we would even know as a child.

So I was really very fortunate in that way. And it's part of the reason I'm so excited to have John Adago join us, because his books, Where East, Meet West, or Ancient Wisdom, and all of those things and how they can really touch and how they have a relevance today, it's not so far off. The teachings, although they changed the face of the words or whatever it is on surface appearance, really are timeless. And so I'm just like a kid in a candy store just excited to explore the remarkable with both of you.

So yeah. Well, beautiful. Now this video is just was you told a story a week ago from I think it was East, Meet West. Or I'm sorry, it actually was from meetings, meetings, was it really a miraculous man or a miraculous people?

These early career people. Meetings with Mark. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Let's warmly welcome John Adago. There you are, John. I need to tell you what you're there, but you're there.

So welcome. I'll be here. Yeah. Meetings are remarkable.

And we'll thread through the first part of the time that we'll find out when I began this place quarter, deeper and profound understanding of what is called the the full protective of a man or woman. I'm concerned your voice is a little bumpy. OK. Is there anything we can do to make your voice a little better?

A little clearer. I'll see what we can do here. I'll speak a little better and clearer for a start. That might help.

OK. If you're getting background, I'll hold two another place. Yeah. If you can move to another place, just you can look at what I just want to make sure people hear your voice.

I can just hear your voice. OK. But I'll continue to speak while I move. What he meant by remarkable, he wrote about men and women.

The aim and purpose of their life was they believe there was as a child of now, it's not much known, but a few that was not generally available to the woman today. They made exhibitions to take places to promote the monetary research of ancient places. And then after about 10 years of these exhibitions, a few things were asked to be done to each. And what he taught was a method and way of life by committing women to deepen their understanding of themselves and life believing.

What I wrote about in ancient wisdom and in ancient twist was this, it's a certain knowledge, this sacred knowledge that has always been handed down from generations to generations. It's not generally available. I will, I will answer a question. I will just.

I'm going to turn it over to you. How are you hearing John Lisa? John, you do sound a little bumpy still. I don't know if you want to try to call back in.

I hate to do that, but I don't want to miss anything you have to share because it's so important. I also want to say that Lisa, if you could call again and get to a stable location or a place that I'll call your affectionate. I want to say that Lisa just happened upon the word of the day. You don't even know what happened upon the word of the day.

Well, you actually said bumpy bumpy is actually the valentine sport of the day. We defined it here, but living bumpy is an experience of someone you feel extra live with. We want to say that I love that all those people you feel bumpy and good about. So bumpy is a little bit of that pulse, that feeling.

Wow, that was like a New York city horn right in my ear there. That's what that was. You're being transported to your time. Amazing.

John, you're like all these incredible props. I don't know. You got that prop. Chris is going to want to buy that prop.

That's incredibly good. Is that John? John, are you there? Alright.

I think you didn't hang up. He's in a cat, believe it. Yeah, that'd be great. Chris, I don't like the bad boy in class.

I can take a picture of John's phone. I heard that in this place. Oh, okay, because I was getting this like, honey, like horn, horn sound in my headset. Oh, do you know any way we could, we could, all right, Lisa, Lisa, always the clear to self-innocent, which is a really good idea.

So is there anything we could do? The dirty way we could turn that off? Okay, so who's, okay, I'm in a clothesline. What is anything else we could do?

Just noisy. What should we do, Chris? Okay, I'm in a clothesline. Okay, so who's, okay, I'm in a clothesline.

What is anything else we could do? Just noisy. What should we do, Chris? Anything with the background noise?

I have no, no, I have no one around me. It's like, it's no one around me. Yeah. Okay, we gotta find out about what you're thinking.

We're gonna make the kind of horn sound from. You better, yes, you're better. That's great. That's great.

Lisa just asked me if you're able to imitate a taxi horn from New York. I can get a question down to a horn. What's the question? It was a comment that, right.

You're welcome back. Welcome back. Go ahead, John. You want to do, you want the question?

You want the question? We had all that. Lisa came out with the balance times word of the day, which is bumpy, John. Bumpy.

I thought bumpy would have that feeling of a sense of love. It's a little bumpy. It's a non-stabilized sense. You feel about something you love.

I hope that could pass on the balance time today of the work. Word of the day. Well, did that work, John? Sure.

One of the people, one of the things everybody celebrates Valentine's Day, the two people know how it arose or who Valentine was. Valentine was a priest who was loved and known because he counseled young people before they got married. That was his specialty. What happened was he actually had a relationship with a friendship with the Emperor of Rome.

In a certain point, since he had this relationship, he attempted to convert him to Christianity. The Emperor did not at all appreciate the overture and he executed it. I'm thinking Valentine is a martyr. But his specialty was preparing men and young men and women for the sacraments of marriage.

That's how Valentine's Day arose. Oh, nice. Well, I didn't have this. Lisa, you were cool about this with the only one in the room with dinner.

No, I had to. I was hoping about my matchmaker. Well, I knew it was the same Valentine, but I didn't have that background. It's wonderful.

Wonderful. I think that it's a much needed service today. I think a lot of people don't really take to heart the sanctity of the union that they're getting ready to embark on. So, yeah.

That's the thing. Well, I know I have a question, too. I want to say hello to Melissa who's listening right now. I can feel it.

Hello, Melissa. So, John, what was the moment I asked Lisa that question? You devoted over the last 40 years to writing to have to do it, waking up, writing to have to do it, having an awareness. So a lot of the sense that we have this thing going on.

I'll call it dead thinking. We have something going on that doesn't feel like I'm vile. And it allows us to see the way we sometimes do see. And so you studied and written about how to make this a more conscious, how to become a participant and if you will, an engager in this quality of weightness, this quality of remarkableness.

When did it start for you? When did John Gagago depart or sort of notice? What happened in your life that tapped you into the remarkable God? Well, I just cut out of college and I found that it was vaguely uneasy.

I was dissatisfied with my life. And I came across the teachings of the writings of the Japanese man. What they said was that the ordinary state that we walk around in is our attention plays very much touching go with our surroundings. So that while thinking about that music, the music we hear in the background is a cue to dance and be patient for one moment.

We're going to pause for a moment. Happy Valentine's Day. Everybody and stay with us for our awakening conversation. Play with us one moment, John.

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He's heard several books on the awakening process, how to really wake up and take some of the ancient teachings to bring him to modern day. I asked John about the first moment he experienced or kind of shaken into the remarkable that kind of had his life move in a different direction. John, you were saying when you got out of college? Yes, actually.

What do you begin to discover about yourself with just the beginnings of self-outsidation? Is that the quality of our attention is very much touching go with what's going on in the moments. So that while we're involved in a conversation or in a project or reading something, we find that other thoughts and feelings distract our attention and we kind of have to keep coming back to what matters, which is what's actually going on here now. What the master teaches of mankind talks is that this dilemma, as it were, this attempts to increase the power of our attention, expands the radius of our awareness, is something that's been going on for as long as there have been men and women.

So the wisdom that the master philosophy from teachers passed on from generation to generation is as relevant today as it was when they first presented it. Because the essential nature of men and women have not changed, nor the laws that govern the creation. How did it impact your conversation with people? How did it start to become part of your life?

How did you start the inquiry? How did it move into this next level? It became your life. It did become your life.

Everything begins to practice self-observation. And by that I mean that one begins to see what one is doing while it is happening. And I'm in the picture. That's generally not what's happening.

Usually I'm aware of the people that behave around me, but I'm not particularly cognizant of what I'm doing today. One finds that through the course of the day in the life, one's pulled by this desire and that desire. Then often these desires take us in conflicting directions and they don't necessarily lead us to something that we consider fulfillment or happiness. What Vanessa teaches suggested was that these desires that arise all through the day and all through the life are really not of our own volitions.

They're habits. They're just tugged up along. And at the end of the day we might feel like we've been pulled down the street by a large dog on a leash. And that dog...

We have to learn to teach the dog to heal. We have to begin to consider what it is that I really want. What is it that I think will fulfill me? There's a Zen story about an archer, or it's just an analogy.

When this Enarcher is about to shoot, he sets his mind and is hard on the target. Then he pulls back the bow and loosens the arrow. Now if his mind is on the target, if the arrow falls short, he draws the bow back further. If the arrow goes left, he shifts his aim to the right.

With time and perseverance, success happens. But if we never had an aim, if we don't really know what it is that we want or what will fulfill us. Well, then there's little chance of success. As Ben, he said, a man without an aim is like one wandering in the woods.

His life tends to go in circles. So in your life, John, have you found yourself pointing that arrow at certain things? And where you had to bring your arrow in a little bit closer to the left or to the right? I would say every day.

Every day. Well, I would say it begins by giving some serious contemplation about what I think will fulfill me now. And then perhaps I formulate an aim for the week or for the season or for this year. And I want to refer to that name from time to time to make sure that I'm walking toward what I believe will fulfill me.

Now, generally what happens is we will accomplish that or gain what we seek or lend us to that in a minute. But it's not quite what we expected. It gets us closer. But that allows us to formulate another aim that perhaps more refined, more accurate.

One of the things one does is he begins to seek out good company. The company of men and women and books and places and ways to spend one's time that lead us toward this higher aim of life. You know, as you're talking, it reminds me of a lot of Gurgif's journey. You know, I know he traveled a lot by train.

That was very common in those days. So he would get on the train and he would travel to a certain location. And there would be interesting people that he would meet along his journey either on the train or when he got off of the train. And I think today's society is sort of the same thing.

Unfortunately, we don't have that luxury of unless you're in the city taking the subway, but you don't really have those long extended train rides like they did in his day. Were there any of the stories or the teachings that you came across that were along those lines? So he was traveling along on the train and really didn't have his aim set at one specific location, but things just unfolded in an unexpected way? Actually, my understanding of the G.S.

was he was a man with a remarkably strong will and very early on in his life, he sensed that there was a higher potential for a man or a woman. And that he could develop himself in a particular way to reach his highest potential, that he would become a man or a woman of substance who could be of use to himself and to others. And for my readings of G.S. and he never forgot his day.

He was always teaching. I mean, he spent 10 years on his expeditions in search of knowledge. And he spent the rest of that knowledge, the rest of his life attempting to bring this wisdom from the East and the Middle East, this ancient wisdom to the West and planted in the minds and hearts of people. Along the way, along your way, John, I was wondering, I wanted to ask you, because a lot of my way, at least take on this, I had moments where things didn't make sense to me.

They didn't make sense to me at all. Like as an example, when I was approximately between 11 and 13, on some level, I couldn't understand if people loved each other, why they would divorce, why they'd break up. I remember just sort of being aware of things that didn't make sense to me, even if they were explained to me, even the explanation didn't make any sense to me. In the same way that tense people, explaining how to be relaxed doesn't make sense to me.

So I was wondering, tell us what didn't make sense to you. You're very receptive to your grief. You're willing to let his whole world impact you and be moved. What, along with your own, what didn't make sense?

How did you deal with turbulence in the things that didn't make sense? Like how did that unfold in your life? Well, before I encountered this work and these ideas, when I thought about it, I realized that really not much of anything made sense. My relationships were not satisfactory.

I wasn't particularly satisfied with the work of the job I was doing. I found myself, you know, often speaking and acting in ways that were inappropriate to the situation, despite my best intentions. This was troublesome because it was something in me that was sure that I was capable of a more fulfilled life. And then you began to study, I began to study the wisdom of the ancient teachers, and I'm talking about sopotings among them.

Sopotings, Prishna, Buddha, and many others. And in essence, they talked the same message that the aim and the purpose of our life was to become more of use to others. And that in doing so, we grew in a certain way. And as I began to understand this message, then it becomes the aim and purpose of my life.

So where I go on vacation and where I go on a weekend there? The friends that I choose to associate with and spend time with. All of my relationships, I'm seeking that which furthers my aim. And things and the entertainment and people who are not pursuing the same interest that I am, well, that doesn't particularly help.

I want to add that. Go ahead, John. I'm sorry. Go ahead.

I'm going to say one of the things to be realized that what these teachers taught, they were not teaching away where a person goes off to a monastery or an ashram or a sort of gage and attempts to refine his thoughts and feelings and spiritual life isolated from the rest of the life. This is called what these teachers taught and it's called the fourth way, that we attempt to practice these spiritual practices of meditation and contemplation and study and observation while carrying out a full life, family, profession, and our relationships and community. That's wonderful. Yeah, John, one of the things I find so delightful about you is that not only do you have you written these books that adults can capture, you've also embarked on the journey to become a storyteller of children and embark on sharing this wisdom and really helping the young cultivate these ideas at a young age.

What inspired you to, was it grandchildren that came into your life or your own children? It was a grandchildren actually. It's a grandchildren, a game of age and six, seven, eight, and they began to do this reason functioning. The things you want to read them, the things you want to tell them.

And when you look into the bookstore and you see books like, you know, Howl's and the Purple Chion that really doesn't speak to me. Right. You, if I like you know, John's list called do not read these books to your children.com. They're okay.

There's nothing wrong with them. We're not really feeding them anything, anything essential. So I began to make up stories, which I told to my grandchildren and eventually to evolve the collection, which I hope they had in print by the spring. And it's called a Grand Terence Tale.

Oh, beautiful. That's beautiful. Yeah. And so as you were telling these tales, did I would imagine that your grandchildren got really wide eyed in inquiry and worked very curious to learn more, which again created the next tale, I'm sure.

What was your, one of your favorite questions or inquiries from one of your grandchildren? Well, you know, children, children are children, you know. So if they laugh and they enjoyed it and, you know, at times I remember one story ending into a way and my grandson said, really, dad, really? He got it.

Now pretty late. And then they were not going to have a philosophical discussion. The art of the story telling the children is to put principles in wisdom and a form that's digestible to that. If they don't have any world experience yet, but they get it.

Absolutely. Yeah. And I'd love to be on the playground of your eight year old and hear what they have to share with their friends. Please don't be a public service announcement.

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That's quite a voice I got here. Amazing. I'm a part living network by living in books. How do you Valentine's Day?

John the Doggos were this today? Author? He's much more than author. He's a liver.

He's an explorer of wisdom. How do I bring this to you? When I was sort of got interested in this type of reading, Lisa and John, I picked up a book very early on called The Silver Bird. The Silver Bird.

It was a little girl who'd see things and sense things, but all the adults couldn't see or sense things. And I kept telling her she didn't see anything. So she, the colors that she saw, she just experienced the, I guess she experienced invisible. She reported about it.

They told her not to pay attention to it. And somehow that book really connected to me. I really, you know, the more that the world, you know, who are starting? What are the people you write about?

Steiner developed a whole type of education called Waller Education. And he wanted children to enter the world with wood and gold. He wanted to touch fibers that would connect them in a sense, a system and they're soul waking up. It's a very unique thing, a unique profound contribution.

And today some of the other children don't allow children to use the computer because they feel like the computer's cold, that's cold energy. And it's very different than the warmth and fiber. And it's very interesting because there's a lot of people I think in the modern world that, you know, the wonder of the storytelling as you were sharing about what you grandchildren. It's a beautiful passage to be able to stroll through the woods and hear a story from a grandparent, from relative from a loved one.

How do religions, what happened? I want to ask Lisa, what about religion? The religion turned you on early on or turned you on? What was your religion as we have this conversation?

Oh, we moved a lot. So I was never ingrained in too many, you know, any beliefs. I was very connected to the first people in Canada. I went to their summer camps.

It just wasn't, you know, I consider myself very spiritual. I was never religious. So I wasn't indoctrinated in anything. And I remember when I first started reading the Kabbalah and I had a friend of mine that was Jewish.

She told me I wasn't allowed to read that. I was like, oh, really? I didn't know. I didn't know.

I couldn't imagine something being forbidden to the floor. But I read it anyway. So. And Lisa's new book is called books you should read anyway.

Yeah. You should read anyway. Yeah. But no, you know, one of the things that, you know, have really enjoyed my re-exploration of meetings with remarkable men, you know, one of the things that I found so fascinating is, you know, along the stops along the way, one of the places that Guruji had stopped, he, you know, was, and I think it goes in alignment with what you were talking about, Glenn, that sometimes we have these circumstances that present that.

And it always seemed like he was really creative and I love your insights on this, John is, is he was in need of some funds and so he was on the train. He set up a plan of action and he drew up an ever that said that said the universal traveling workshop in his passage will stop here for a very short time. And all of the different things he said, you know, hurry and give your orders of bringing everything you have to be repaired or remodeled. We repair sewing machines locks upholstery, recover umbrellas, children's toys, remove stains, restore pictures, you know, that really that there was nothing that he wouldn't offer as a service.

And I'm curious as to what your insights are on that story, John, and, you know, how you felt that it served him along the way in touching and reaching people in their lives. Well, what Guruji wrote was that a good occupation for a man or a woman was one that allowed him to develop as many aspects of himself as possible. We live today in the world for the time of specialization and specialization results in efficiency and the production of wealth. But it doesn't necessarily develop a man in full.

So although we may specialize in a living, we don't want to limit ourselves. I mean, I met one Sadakta who was a neurosurgeon and quite accomplished in his field, but in speaking with him, he had no deeper understanding of the meaning of life than a layman. Because it wasn't necessary for him to perform his job in professions, but it is necessary to fulfill the purpose and meaning of your life. And the way we actually go about this is it arises from a desire to be of use to the people that we love and care for.

It's not about family and our loved ones, perhaps the people we meet in our professional life, but it needs to grow in a more universal direction. That's very beautiful. So, I want to say Lisa, that was better than any guidance counselor, anybody who has said it said it was absolutely brilliant, John. I really, that turned me on.

And, you know, how I work with people out with the driver speaking and my coaching is, I meet many, many people who are so dissatisfied. And miss this ability to fully express himself as a dancer, as a speaker, as an actor. I realized that a lot of us get a job and kind of get a death sentence. And what you just said is so alive and versatile, loved it.

It changed your door way, it changed your door way, your aim. I agree. It changes your perspective. Because the perspective we walk around in through our day is that we can turn ourselves the central figure in the place that we understand that there's a very large universe as it were.

But somehow we think that I'm the center of it. It all revolves around me. And, well, there is a survival impulse. I mean, we have to take care of ourselves.

We have to keep bodies all together. But that principle gets close away at a proportion. And our whole world becomes this self-centered view. Expanding the view is one of the keys to finding happiness in fulfillment.

We have to learn how to practice love. And that's not meant in a sentimental way. But I love it that I begin to relate to the people around me so as to nurture and care for their finest and highest qualities in nature. It's beautiful.

I think that if everybody did just that and found a few people to practice love with, it would definitely change the world by that definition. Absolutely. To bring out the fine. Could you repeat that, John?

You said to bring out the... To be late to others so that we nurture and care for their finest and highest qualities in nature. Wow. It's very beautiful.

So, Glenn, if today you had the opportunity to do just that, who would you choose to reach out to and what would you offer them? It's such a beautiful question. What comes to mind immediately is my son Michael Brooks. I learned so much from Michael.

Michael shows me new worlds. He's become so global. He sees so much. I would just say connecting the heart, the next level of deepings is new relationship because you have a new relationship with your children.

They become your children. They become adults and they become a different aspect of your family. Same thing with my daughter. I would say that people that in some ways, and I want to go into this next week, that sometimes the people that give us the most challenge.

Also, I think it's the greatest opportunity to experience love in a different way. The same way that John was saying. I would say my children, some other people, and I'd mention my grandparents. I think to myself, he said, John, it would be like, wow, I began this like with my grandparents.

When I passed away, I feel like I'm still learning things from that. I'm still appreciating things about my mother that I didn't even realize that she expressed. It's a very humbling question. It's a very humbling question.

I guess another thing is to slow down, to experience those passages of love in the day. Those moments where we take a moment, maybe someone drops something, those little moments where it matters so profoundly, and we could be apt to hurry through it. And soften it. I think living life with soft eyes and the ability to feel a touch when you're touched.

To be in that experience. That's what I, when I get scared to be teaching to me, and as John shares it, and as you so beautifully catch essences of meaning, it's kind of being like when you're in life and become more awake to the intelligence that's in you, that sings for you. In my life, there's only two songs. One song is kind of like this counterfeit thing.

And this other thing is like this pulsating thing. And so when you're in relationship, God, it's such a doorway, because as John was saying, it's very easy to be focused on ourselves. To be in relationship is to sing the full song of life together. That's what I'm being humbled and asked to pay attention to and to coach about.

And people come to me. It's amazing because I'm so honored they would trust and open that part of themselves and be humble enough to say they want to have this other life. I mean, that's why I love what John's doing. And you're doing it just to be able to be in life that asks, invites people to step into life and be in life in a way that's truly alive.

Right. Absolutely. So, John, I guess, you know, you having said that, I would direct the same question to you. You know, some examples of just simple things that you could share with the audience and something that they could do in their day on this very special Valentine's Day to share a little piece of their heart.

Well, I would say that begin by taking a little bit of time every day for yourself. If it should be a short period, 15 minutes or a half an hour, sometime during the 24 hours, that I come to myself. I let the activities and the responsibilities of the days of sight and this contemplation, perhaps meditation, studying something that's inspirational. Something that puts us in touch with ourselves.

And this is very practical because it's from the stillness of myself that the creative energy of the day arises. And without this coming in touch with oneself, one finds oneself just running about randomly. There's a lot of action and a lot of motion, but nothing much of substance transpires. So that's one practical thing that one can do.

What, and then this method of observation, which means simply that there's a faculty that awakens in the mind and heart that just observes what's going on right now. And I'm in the picture, my behavior, my thoughts, the tone of my voice, I'm cognizant of that as I relate to the creation. If under the light of observation, the behavior in this speech will find it become more appropriate to the situation. It's beautiful.

I think that so many times we don't take that time for self and that's a beautiful, practical way to embody that and really touching into that self-love and nurturing. And so many of us, we hurry so much. So the first step is we want to deepen our awareness and sense of oneself. But the next step is to realize that we have to acknowledge that self and everyone we meet.

That in fact, this force of life that makes my heart beat, this consciousness, this is the same force that animates you and everyone else. And it's this universal self that needs to be remembered and acknowledged as often as possible during the day in the life. John, I go, thank you deeply. Thank you, Lisa.

Thank you, everyone. Your life's precious. Enjoy it. Happy Valentine's Day.

Thanks for listening, Lisa. Be sure you welcome. Very deeply. Be well.

Thank you, John. Much love. The vibrant living network has it expands. I'm so happy you're with us.

Go look and check out that on Facebook. I'm Glen Brooks. Along with Lisa Lorose. Life's precious.

Enjoy it. One more time, viewing life's life is precious. Enjoy it. Thank you, Chris.