EPISODE 27 - SORRY ISN'T WEAKNESS: IT IS THE BRIDGE TO HEAVEN

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Somehow in school we don’t teach this stuff

Somehow in life we always give up 

Mom and Dad can only show us so much love 

Somehow in school we don’t teach this stuff

Somehow in life we don’t ever look up

Mom and Dad can only show us so much love

There was mold in my aqua tru for like the last 10 months

So sorry if I was crazy I think I was a little blunt

I haven’t smoked a blunt in like 3 years or something

How does someone like me even come up with this stuff

How does someone like me even come up out the rough

I feel like I’m in the woods at Augusta 

Y’all gone need a movie bout me starring Shia LaBeouf 

Y’all gone need to stop asking me when I’ll blow up 

Only God got us 

I don’t check, I don’t really monitor 

The progress, I am the one, I am the son

I am the fun, she is my girl, this is our world

Ohhh 

Riding around

This is the part where everything changes

This is the part when we go major

No Graduation

I love my teachers, but y’all need to teach me the basics

Y’all need to redo the basement

Y’all need a new foundation

And you can say this came from David

I want the smoke, I want the flavor

I don’t wanna make it 

I just wanna change it

I’m not the savior

You are the savior

You are the world

You are the one that everyone’s waiting on

You are the love that is everyone’s praying on

You are the son and your Reys are coming

Transcript

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You are now tuned into the best podcast in the world. Nobody listens to your podcast. Let's go. Somehow in school we don't teach the stuff. Somehow in life we never look up. Mom and dad can only show us so much. Somehow in school we don't teach the stuff. Somehow in life we never look up. Mom and dad can only show us so much love. Yeah. There was mold in my aqua chew for like the last ten months. So sorry if I was crazy, if I was a little blunt. I haven't smoked a blunt in like three months or something. How does someone like me even come up with the stuff? How does someone like me even come up with the rough? Feel like I'm in the woods at Augusta. Y'all gonna need a movie about me starring Charlotte Buff. Y'all gonna need to stop, ask me when I blow up. Only God got us. I don't check, I don't really monitor the progress. I am the one, I am the sun, I am the fun, she is my girl. This is our world riding around. Woo. This is the part where everything changes. This is the part when we go major, no graduation. I love my teachers, but y'all need to teach me the basics. Y'all need to redo the basement. Y'all need a new foundation. And you can say, This came from David, this came from David. I want the smoke, I want the flavor, I don't wanna make it, I just wanna change it. I'm not the savior. You are the savior, you are the world, you are the one that everyone's waiting on. Yeah, you are the love that everyone's preying on. Damn. You are the sun, and your rays aren't gone. I promise you one thing. Intentions are everything. Yeah. Somehow, in school we don't teach this stuff. Somehow in life we always give up. Mom and dad can only show us so much love. Somehow in school we don't teach stuff, somehow in life we never look up. Mom and dad can only show us so much love. Somehow in school they don't teach this stuff. Somehow in life you always give up. Damn, always give up. As if you're really not enough, and that's tough. Kings only had power when they were heartless. These days no one's got power unless they're honest, but it's not power because of oneness. When you were born, you were a beautiful little creature. A beautiful baby, a pure spirit being incarnated into a human for this wondrous human spiritual experience. You had wonder in your eyes, absolute fever dream. You were the most precious thing anyone had ever seen in that moment. And this is true for all the spirits who enter this realm. Likely your mother or father, andor the doctors, nurses present, were marveling as you cried, smiled, and danced your way into this world with a statement of authority. I am here! You roared. Your spirit carried the bravery of a lion, the heart of an elephant, and the brains of a dolphin. You carried with you the potential of an angel. You were perfect. And somehow, some way, my friend, you still are. However, there was one sort of main challenge, we'll say, with you. Particularly you. Not the other person listening to this. No, you. I'm only joking. Or am I? You'll have to find out. And your state of being, completely and utterly the most beautiful thing anyone in that room had ever seen, and the most magnificently prolific actor on that stage that day, you carried with you one main downside, we'll say. One main flaw. This flaw is not really even one thing, actually. In fact, it's perhaps billions of things. Oh god. Perhaps an infinite number of flaws. Yet the paradox, you had just as many an infinite number of perfections, an infinite magnitude of beauty, and an infinite magnitude of potential. Let's see here. You first of all had fluid likely all over your body at this moment. You needed someone to wipe that off pretty quickly. You couldn't really understand much of anything at that point, let alone you couldn't really move. People literally had to carry you and move you from place to place. You're basically immobile. Yet, this is also what made you so beautiful. However, ultimately, your desire to move, your desire to understand, your desire for independence, to not have fluid all over yourself, grew in all likelihood. As the months waged on and you finally wiped yourself off with the help of others, of course, you found yourself moving a bit more in all likelihood, understanding a bit more. Yet you were still relatively and utterly helpless. You still needed someone to feed you, you still needed someone to protect you, and you still needed someone to help you, go to the bathroom even and wipe yourself off again when you crapped on yourself. Think about that. Your idol crapped on themselves. Sorry. So remember that next time you're on social media getting FOMO and go touch some grass. As the months continued to wage on in your early life, you began to actually become more capable. You started to crawl even, move around even. You started to be fed actual food, be able to swallow things, right? Instead of just breast milk. Then eventually you started to walk and then run, but you fell down a lot in that process. You got up, started to walk, and then likely fell a lot of times. Now I want you to think about that and examine the moment you fell. What is really happening in that moment? What is happening exactly in that moment is a realization of a mistake. Oh no, a mistake. It's almost like you're human or something. No, never mind. Never mind. You're not human, sorry. The same way, when you learn how to ride a bike and you fall, you are realizing the inadequacy in the mistake of your allocation of balance within your body which caused that fall. Well, what do we do? We get back up and ponder our mistake. Oh, well, I was putting too much weight on the left side of my body, and that's why I fell. Whether on the bike or when we were first learning to walk. We may have not registered this thought process, but this was the thought process because all that mattered to us was learning how to walk and ride that bike. As we ascended our understanding and our skill, we eventually learned to walk. We eventually learned to talk. We reached for what we so obviously desire to grow into. Yet we only achieved this given our ability to understand where we needed to improve and by simply improving without any hesitation, without any friction, right? Luckily at this age, when we were two or three or four, all we simply cared about was improving. All we wanted to do was be independent. We wanted to stop being relying reliant on others. We wanted to grow at all costs. Our entire lives revolved around our growth. We got larger, we grew teeth, we learned to crawl, we got to stay up later, then we learned to walk, maybe even talk, maybe even read. Then we started saying words and understanding, and then something magical happened. We actually snapped into consciousness and we realized our separateness in this world, our distinctive role in this world is separate from mommy and daddy. And that separateness only grew and grew and grew for whoever was taking care of us. And slowly but surely, as we aged and matured even more, we actually started to become our own boss and our own metric, so to speak, for this growth, which actually became and was so natural and effortless at the beginning of our lives. Yet all of a sudden, when we started to understand our separateness, many of us also, unfortunately, due to our upbringing, due to the lack of unconditional love we had, we also learned our worthlessness. Our worlds began to darken, our perceived worthlessness began to foster. Many of us also learned that the world wasn't all rainbows and sunshines. Sunshine. Yeah. Or our perceived idea that the world wasn't all rainbows and sunshine. See, what happened to so many of us is that we went from this place of genuine helplessness to oh, I can help myself if I just keep getting better every day. And many of us ultimately reverting to the tragedy of our initial helplessness. We revert back again to this place where we are who we are and that'll never change. Um I'm just gonna say that again. See, what happened to so many of us is we went from a place of genuine helplessness to oh, I can help myself if I just keep getting better every day, and then ultimately reverting back to our initial helplessness. We revert again back to this place where we are who we are, and that person will never be able to change. Literally, go and talk to older people, people above 50 to 60 years, 60 years old, almost 80% of them will literally quote this exact quote: We are who we are, and that'll never change. Bro, do you remember? You you you couldn't even walk, you couldn't even talk, you couldn't even say those words you're saying to me right now. You you're always changing, you're always growing. So it's like they forgot the very obvious thing that I was stating at the beginning of this episode for this exact intention and understanding. The fact is, you have always been adapting and always been changing and always been growing. The only question is, what are you adapting and growing into? And how much are you allowing the world around you to wipe you off, so to speak, to help clean your flaws? How much are you listening to those around you who are genuinely giving you good feedback? Are you registering said feedback? Are you thinking about said feedback? When the world in our families in our schools don't show us unconditional beauty and unconditional love, we so often revert back to this false understanding that we aren't beautiful. And when we believe that we aren't beautiful, we believe we can't change positively, yet we forget that we literally learn to walk, we literally learn to talk. And so when we un when we basically what I'm trying to say in this podcast here, at this point of the podcast, is that we have this learned helplessness that we develop. Um, we can't change and we can't grow into something beautiful when we don't get love at a young age. Denying the very essence of our existence and how our lives were before we clicked into the separation of consciousness. Like you weren't thinking about trying to walk. You were just, you were just, I need to walk. You weren't, there wasn't, oh well, today I'm gonna try to walk a little bit better. Uh, and today I'm gonna try and talk a little bit better. No, you were just boom, you were there, you were beelining it to walking, you were beelining it to talking. Didn't and so we deny our very essence of our beauty and our existence and how our lives were before when we believe that we can't continue to grow into something beautiful, denying the very God-given path and duty we all signed up for with excitement and willingness to play. We all are we allow our fun and growth to be lost, thinking we are lost ourselves. This is the biggest lie we tell ourselves and the biggest lie that is told in the world. And when this happens, this is when the ego is established. The ego, as I've always said, is false. When the ego is established and then continues to grow and is not cut off, the negativity within us begins to blossom, making us into a person who so easily sees the flaws, the obstacles, the downsides, the fallenness of ourselves and the world and forgets they were the ones who learned how to walk. They were the ones who learned how to talk, they were the ones who actually at one point has a had a positive feedback loop in their lives, but they they, like everyone in this earthly realm and plane, needed to grow, right? You they needed to grow. Instead of learning how to improve and where to improve, many of us put up this protective shell, which begins to become our new home. And while we think this is a protective shell hiding our flaws from others and ourselves, what is what it actually is is something much darker and corrosive. Our ego and our inability to look at our own growth is the biggest and most infectious parasite in the entire existence of this spiritual experience. It is the exact reason for everything negative. I want you to zoom out and think about God, whether you believe in God or not. Think about a creator of this universe. If you were said creator and you had all of these spirits or people, so to speak, in this universe, and one day you were to unite with them in one big party of heaven, so to speak, what would you want from them before they came to this party? Perhaps at least knowing to arrive to a to the party with a great party hat. I mean, party hats are great, right? They're the best. Perhaps at least bring a gift. Perhaps dress nicely, be hygienic, come in a good mood. Or don't come at all. My mom always my mom always says that. Perhaps knowing a skill or two, which can help entertain a corner of the room. See, what does God how does God want you to show up to the party of heaven? That's what I'm trying to get you to think about. How does God want you to show up at the end of your life? Maybe as someone who learned a lot and grew a lot, just as you basically started doing naturally from the moment you came out of your mother. I want you to zoom out and think. See, what I'm trying to say is the crawling to walking, to running, this growth, which was natural to us at birth, and frankly, always is our greatest path, a natural path, was always the point of this existence. You are here on earth not to flex. I mean, you're here, bro. What is there to flex about? All you got to do is keep growing. But rather to become someone actually capable of flexing to the only person it matters to flex to, your own divine self and your creator. You are here to make yourself into one hell of a guest in heaven, and you know exactly the recipe for making yourself this guest. Please don't read that the wrong way. You are here to continue the ascension you started before you began to believe all these false things about your potential and your growth prospects, before you began falling out of love with yourself, due to programming that other people put on to you that was due to their own programming that was put onto them, their own damage that was put onto them, right? Which all stems from this place where we don't teach and we don't show unconditional love in our world. Huge problem. So before you began falling out of love with yourself, before the romance and the spark of your life died, you have to look at the spark of your growth in your life like a plant that is either growing or dying. There is no middle ground, there is no stagnation. When you are stagnant, you are actually lying about the dying that is happening. Think about relationships. Like when you when you think about a friend, right, of yours, Tony Robbins always talks about this. Relationships are either growing or dying. There is no middle ground. You know it, and everyone knows it. When when there's middle middle ground and stagnation, the the relationship is dying. Things are always changing. They're either growing or dying. In other words, you are here to ascend. And that is what truly makes you happy. Yet, what has often been happening in humanity for as long as time has existed is the opposite of this ascension due to the ego within ourselves, the negativity within us, which, as I was saying earlier, puts up this protective shell. The protective shell says, I am better than you, I am stronger than you. It is me versus you, and therefore, why would I need to change or adapt? It is you who must change or adapt. Me? I'm already perfect. I mean, just look at my DNA. Right? That whole Kendrick line. I got royalty in my DNA. Right. Okay. Okay, Kendrick. But it doesn't matter what's in our DNA. We always are here to grow and adapt. It is this belief that I must be strong, I must be better, I must always show strength and never show weakness. How could I ever show myself to the world and all my flaws? That would be unnecessary and too vulnerable. But this shell does one very corrosive thing to us when we don't put ourselves into states of growth. And you and examining ourselves honestly, we don't do the very thing we were put here to do, which is to become all we can be and give our unique value and love to the world. Brothers and sisters, don't you remember how beautiful you were in all your flaws the moment you arrived? You were the most beautiful thing in the world, the strongest thing that the room had ever seen, and the most magnificent spirit in that exact and precise moment. Yet you had so much you could not do. You had so much you needed help with, frankly. So much you had to apologize for, in the sense that you needed help. I'm sorry, can you can you wipe this off me? I'm sorry, can you feed me? I'm sorry, can you, you know, can you do this for me? If you were then seconds later, after you were born, made the president of the United States of America, do you think we'd you would do a good job? Or do you think you would need to apologize for your poor performance? Look at our global leaders, our CEOs, the wars we have waged over our history, the fights we have with each other. How much do we really think our leaders have grown? Sure, they've gotten bigger and taller, maybe hairier, but I mean really grown from a spiritual sense after they learned to walk, learned to write and read, learn to take tests and do well in school, learn to play the game of corporate America or whatever it is they did to get where they are. See, what actually makes a good leader, what actually makes us in tune with ourselves, is our spirituality. It's not how well we play these games that are of this world, which ultimately don't foster true spiritual growth. Rather, what makes us a good leader is how well we play the games that are not of this world. In other words, how many times we are able to ascend and transcend ourselves and our egos and our identities and to say and acknowledge our own faults in order to walk a straighter line without falling. This isn't about being a leader for the sake of being the king or leading the army. This is truly about being satisfied in our own purpose in divineness. This is about saving ourselves. This is about appeasing ourselves and God and making ourselves into someone who even we would fully trust, and someone who even we truly believe is actually ascending and living a life of fulfillment. This is our purpose. What happens though is we play these games of this world for so long and so well, frankly, that we actually develop this level of expertise and this level of reputation amongst others if we play these games well enough. This is what catapults us to a leadership position. We grow in this game that is of this world and we upgrade our manipulation skills, so to speak, with the outside world to achieve status. We have expert Josh here, who knows everything there is to know on X, Y, and Z. And then when Josh and we get into these positions of expertise and power, frankly, our protective shell of our ego almost becomes innate. In other words, it becomes given. How could we ever jump off the cliff and kill ourselves metaphorically by simply admitting we were wrong? We would lose all of our credentials. Of our expertise about something we are an expert in? We are the authority. We have the power. I'm the CEO. I'm the CFO. I got this position. It's higher than your position. Why on earth would I ever relinquish the power? The power is all that matters. It leads to everything I could ever want. Yet, how powerful were we when we fell off of our bikes? Did we say, Oh, I can never let anyone ever see me in this weak position. I must never ride this stupid bike again. It is the bike's fault, not mine. It is my neighbor's fault for even watching me ride this bike. What a creep! Don't they have a life? Many of us do this. Metaphorically. But when we were young, we didn't. In the blink of an eye, we got right back up on the bike. Assuming the fall wasn't too bad. And we rode off into the sunset of a beautiful summer day, even if it was raining. Because what mattered to us in that moment was not our reputation. Rather, it was our pureness. Our purity. Our own spirit's journey to a better place. We had no shell. We had no sense of weakness. Wow, I got a really cool yellow bug on me right now. What's up, buddy? And I got a cool yellow shirt on me, let's be honest. Um we had no shell. We had no sense of weakness in what others would think of us. We only had the sense of what we thought of ourselves and our higher aim. This is precisely why often many of us say children are far more in tune and spiritual than adults. Right? Dang, it's a big ant. Um, it is because they're in touch with the purity of love for themselves. And when you love yourself, you want to grow. You want to bridge the gaps, you want to connect with the people around you. And when you grow, you become someone of actual value and true value to the world around you. Perhaps for you it wasn't riding a bike. Perhaps it was playing chess or riding a scooter or swimming, but whatever it was, you wanted to do it out of the purity of your spirit, and you simply didn't care how ugly it looked at the beginning. Especially when you got hurt. Think about when you got hurt, perhaps perhaps you really got injured riding a bike, or when you were running around in your infancy, and boom, you took it on the chin. Did you care about looking strong in that moment? Did you care about what anyone thought? Or did you cry and simply want the pain to go away? Did you simply just want to learn how to not do it again? See, we get so mixed up when we think about other people and our the world around us, and we don't become in touch with who it is we actually are and our spirituality. We get so mixed up when we're so concerned with our reputation and what other people think that we literally make the wrong decisions at almost every turn in our lives. We don't actually grow and become the thing that we so naturally and easily can do and walk into and grow into. We stop doing that because we're just constantly looking around. What are they doing? What are they doing? What do they think of me? What are they doing? What do they think of me? Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, right? This is completely when the ego takes control. We begin to look at vulnerability as weakness. Yet how vulnerable were we as infants when we were literally growth machines, when we were literally on a straight line path to our highest self. We again want to separate ourselves from others when the ego is present with these motes and walls as we cast judgments on the world around us. I am better than them, we think, or I hope they don't see my true self and all the insecurities I truly have, all the flaws I truly have. I can only show perfection and strength. Both of these are false projections of the ego, thinking we are better than others, the positive ego thinking others are better than us. Uh so the positive ego is thinking we are better than others, the negative ego is thinking others are better than us. The paradoxical truth being we are extremely unique and special spiritual beings who are no better or worse than any of the other spiritual beings. As I've alluded to in this podcast many times, the ego is false. And as I have demonstrated, it is false in this case because our sensitivity and our ability to really feel into what is happening without the projection or thought of others onto our own spiritual growth and experience is what actually allows us to continue to ascend and grow. In other words, it is the child with the whole world watching, riding their bike, falling down over and over, who still gets up, laughs it off, and tries again, who understands the true nature of spirituality. Can you imagine a child falling down on their bike and then realizing a lot of people are watching and then being like, oh, I'm not gonna try it again? That's just not how a child thinks. A child gets right back on the bike. But us, we when we grow into these into our ego, we we we and because we grow into our ego, and we do this through the mechanism of constantly thinking about what other people are thinking about us and our reputation. So I'm gonna explain how this plays out on an important level, other than just like riding bikes and stuff, right? So we become so focused on looking strong and being right when we are out of touch with the purity of ourselves, when we lose touch with the child who is just riding their bicycle trying to learn how to ride. Two important negative things happen when we allow the ego to take over in this way. One, we often don't actually take accountability and grow and learn what it is we are meant to learn. And this impacts not only our lives, but others around us, right? If we have a family and we're doing something that is negatively impacting our family, and we don't take accountability and grow and learn what it is we are meant to learn, that's not a very spiritual path. That's not a path that anyone wants to go down. We don't, and number two is we don't show ourselves in the world around us what it is like to take accountability and grow, and therefore we spread this falseness of strength at all cost and reputation at all cost, and I'm already good and you're not, and I'm better than you at all cost. See, what we must understand is sensitivity in being vulnerable is not weakness, it is actually showing our strength. Saying we are sorry is not showing others we are weak, it is showing ourselves and others how we can grow and ascend and learn to ride our bikes to the spiritual heaven we paved for ourselves. All of the wars, I repeat, all of the wars, all of the negative things you see in this world come from someone who forgets the very nature of their childhood, someone who forgets the very nature of nature itself. That's why I'm out here today. This wonderful, beautiful spiritual experience. Your entire existence is predicated and relies upon you apologizing. Because when we apologize, we can recognize the flaws. When we never apologize, we start to develop a lack of sensitivity and we become less in tune with where it is we actually need to go. And then we often just end up giving up. This is the key point. We lose sight of our North Star, which is not power and reputation with others, rather, it is power and reputation with ourselves and therefore God. In order to make ourselves capable, in order to make ourselves true, we need a tight feedback loop, right? We need to accept criticism. Oh, I could have done it that way. I'm sorry. And it you don't always have to say you're sorry, but your actions, your your new action is essentially the same thing as basically saying you're sorry. It's a new decision based on new information. And then um so my bad, I will do better next time, is not this is a very key point. I'm gonna read this very slowly because this is what you really need to get from this episode right here. My bad, I will do better next time, is not the knockout blow so many of us think it is. We have learned this lesson so clearly in our culture today, with so few people who come forward apologizing after wrongdoing, and yet what happens is their reputation actually gets worse and not better. Why is this? Why do people who don't apologize when they do wrong, why does their reputation actually just get worse overall over time? Why? Why? Because deep down we all know reputation doesn't matter. What matters is the purity and honesty and sensitivity within our spirits. This is why Drake is so popular. You know, I hate to bring Drake into such a uh a uh tender moment here, but he's a tender guy. We'll give him we'll give him credit. But the reason Drake is so popular is because he is vulnerable, he he shows his sensitivity, and through that, he actually shows strength. He understands exactly what I'm saying right now. And the same the same goes for anyone who's extremely vulnerable and honest. This is why also a lot of people love Joe Rogan's podcast, because he's vulnerable, he's honest, he goes in depth, he's not afraid to say his share his feelings, he's not afraid to cry, he's not afraid to laugh, he's not afraid to admit when he was wrong, he's not afraid to say when he's sorry. And this is also precisely on the other end of the spectrum here, exactly why politicians aren't trusted, right? Because they don't apologize, they don't admit wrongdoing, they pretend they are perfect. Yeah, man, you're on planet Earth, which is literally a school for your spirit to learn to grow. But yeah, you arrived perfectly, and that's why you should run for president. In fact, you're just so perfect you shouldn't even run for president. Um no. Obviously, the best president or the best leader is actually the one who can actually lead themselves without ego by constantly having a tight feedback loop on where it is they are wrong and not getting too high or too low, and showing themselves and others this is this exact feedback loop because what do they have to lose? And this is the point. We live in a society where we think showing this feedback loop is massively detrimental, but it's actually essential. See, we carry the opposite understanding, right? Everyone always just wants to be right, you know, and that pigeonholes us into such a narrow place so often that that place of always wanting to be right is actually the completely wrong place, right? You see this with billionaires, you see this with the smartest, some of the smartest people you think in the world. It's always the ego that gets us in the way. Think about a basketball player, think about like Shea Gilders Alexander, someone who's just got the like or Wembanana, someone who's got like the best jump shot you could imagine, right? Do you think that if if a basketball player is shooting a bunch of shots and they're like, it's not go the shots aren't going in, but then they're like, you know what? I'm right. This form is right. This uh, you know, this way I'm doing it is right, everything about me is right, like it's the basket's problem, or like, you know, it's the sun's problem, or whatever. It's like, no. Obviously, it's not. Obviously, you need to work on your technique. Maybe it's you're not breathing, or whatever it is that is not allowing you to focus enough to get the ball in the hoop, right? Shea Gilders Alexander, Kobe Bryant, these guys weren't in the gym saying, Oh, it's right, it's right away. Steph Curry's not saying it's right. I was born with this. No, he's shooting a billion shots until it is right. He's failing a billion times until the shot goes in. And he's failing over and over and over again, and he each time he fails, each time he misses a shot, it is literally like nothing happened. It is just a course correction, it is just a minor to major. I'm sure major started off major, course correction, and how to make the shot go in. That's literally all he's thinking about. Yet, when it comes to our reputation and all these things that are, you know, our status, right, we will pigeonhole ourselves in very important institutional categories like health, like politics, like all these like really important things in society, like obviously not putting a basket in a hoop is not important. But if we can translate this, this like you know foreign policy, um, you know, what are we doing with electric cars? How are we how are we moving forward with AI? How are we thinking about this? How are we thinking about that? Like these important things in our world. And we're actually like adapting at every single turn instead of trying to just keep our status and our bag, so to speak, like we have we we just have like we have to get past this fear of being wrong is is is such a bad thing. It's actually the way. So this is why this opposite understanding is why so few few people say they're sorry, especially in the workplace, especially in politics, even in our relationships. How good do those relationships work out if you never say you're sorry? Right? We never want to lose the power and lose the leverage, yet the only power and leverage which actually matters in the end is your ascension. Therefore, our ascension actually depends on you being sorry. It's ironic and funny, yet sad when you literally visualize and understand your ascension, which is literally like this height, this greater height, right? In other words, this higher place, which you get to by being wrong and failing and learning and growing from those failures. Cannot happen. This cannot happen. We cannot get higher when we stay grounded in our ego, thinking we are playing the game, this false game of reputation, and we think our reputation matters, and we can never be wrong, but we're obviously playing the wrong game. That's the point. We are playing this game on earth to grow and to learn to ascend our higher spirituality. And this game has nothing to do with appearances, it has nothing to do with mirages and Instagram followers, whatever vane metric you can think of. This game actually has everything to do with the root of what is actually going on, and the root of what is actually going on is the issues and the true weaknesses we have to work on instead of digging our heels and blaming everyone and every everything around us. The other aspect of using the word sorry is that is a bridge to a connection, it is a bridge to synergy and to peace. When we don't use this word as often as we should or ever, we essentially isolate ourselves and understand the world through this falseness of separation in which we are all separate and our actions don't matter towards another because everything is separate. It's funny. I say I'm sorry a lot. I often find myself saying I'm sorry at the grocery store when I have like a big cart and I'm wheeling it around and I'm in other people's way, right? Or I come around the corner a little hot with my cart and nearly hit someone else's cart. Oh, sorry, sorry, right? You ever find yourself doing that in the grocery store? You should. It's great, and I'll explain why. Is this truly my fault that I have a big grocery cart? Did I design the grocery cart? Did I design the aisles to be uh, you know, uh narrow? No, it's it's it's not my fault. I'm just at the grocery store moving my cart around, getting my groceries, right? And sort of getting in people's way sometimes. Obviously, it's not my fault. But my friends, what does it cost me to say I'm sorry to my fellow neighbors and strangers? I want you to think about this. It costs me nothing. Absolutely nothing. Why? Because I have worked on eliminating my ego through meditation. Sorry to be blunt, but that's why it costs me nothing. I could say the word sorry five billion times and it wouldn't impact me at all. The key is the word sorry and building the bridge are essential. Saying sorry cost only costs you something when you have a protective ego shell. Saying sorry never costs the spirit a thing. And the upside is building a connection of love. And this is why it doesn't cost you anything. This is why it's they say kindness doesn't cost a thing. The word sorry, think about the word sorry. I want you to think about this honestly. It positively impacts the connection you have with people, right? I say sorry and it positively impacts this connection that I had with the person who I almost hit in the grocery store. Why? Why does it do that? It shows them that I care about how my actions impact them, right? It shows that I am aware that my actions impact them. It shows that I hope that they don't have problems and they go on their merry way. It's it's small, it's very small, but it's kind and it means much more than we realize, even to ourselves. Kindness doesn't cost you anything. Saying you're sorry shows you you are in a state of spiritual growth. It's not a level down to apologize. You know the true metric for where you are. It doesn't matter what people think about you, man. You gotta get that out of your head. Again, the only reputation that matters is the one with yourself and God. So I could go and say I'm sorry to a thousand people today for absolutely no reason, right? And it wouldn't and it shouldn't change anything about how I see myself and my strength. It would be unnecessary, yeah, but I probably would spread a lot more love in the in the world just by doing this. And this is the key point. This actually shows us the fact that if I just apologize to a thousand people today for no reason, and then all of a sudden I make 600 to 700 new friends and have amazing conversations, this actually shows us something very, very true. It is a key missing ingredient in our world to build these bridges and make the world the beautiful place we all desire to be. It shows us the missing ingredient is eliminating and lowering the ego. Because I guarantee that what would happen if I apologized for no reason is is the apology which brings us peace. Because it says I guarantee these apologies would bring peace to those interactions because it says I'm here with you on your level. I am here with you doing my best. I am not above you. I'm not below you. I'm just doing my best with you in your hand, right? Like it doesn't cost me anything to say I'm sorry. It doesn't make me weak, it doesn't signal to my body and my spirit that I'm this person who must apologize for my existence. Any of these arguments that are posted online, populated in the sphere of like the red pillow masculinity, understanding how men should behave in the world, right? Completely wrong. Just like we have to understand as men in the world, and as people whoever you are. What are the main problems in the world, guys? What are the main problems? Is it like not a is it too many men apologizing and not being masculine enough? Yeah, like I think messes with like the person. As men, you need you need to understand your nature, which is a solution-oriented nature. And you are smarter than falsely thinking that showing strength is more important than building bridges. I'm gonna say that one more time. As men, you need to be more solution-oriented. I'm talking to the men out there. That's how your brain operates. What is the best solution to the problems in our world? Is it showing more masculinity and showing more strength through this false reputation? Or is it building bridges? I think you know the answer. Because the main problems are apologize too much. Rather, our main problems are not get uh not getting along with each other. Right. We don't need more strength. We don't need more love and peace and harmony. Excuse me. We don't need more strength. What we need is more love and peace and harmony. And that is strength. See, we that we just have the wrong definition of strength. Right. There's a great line that um peace is the uh friends with her is not the absence of strength. It is the uh the pinnacle of strength. Right being friends with the money. It is peace is not the absence of strength. It is the epitome and pinnacle of strength. Right? We don't need more of this false strength, guys. We don't mean need more of this reputation boosting stuff. What we need is more love and peace and harmony and ability to work with each other. That's tough. That's a tough one. Why? Why do we need this, David? Why do we why do we need more love? Because this is what we all desire. We don't desire to be have our moats up in our castle walls and who's got the strongest castle. That's not what we desire. We desire to live together in harmony and beauty. That's what we came here to do and learn how to do. And it's like, okay, this shows. And if you really think about that on a really deep level, what I just said, like you clip the last like forty-five seconds, sixty seconds, and you like go somewhere in nature and just like think about what I just said. You'll know why. You'll know why this is what we came here to do. And I'm not gonna tell you why. I want you to think about it. You'll know why. This is what we came here to do. The guy's like, well, I mean, I've already talked about this. Camera isn't the director, so you know, it's fun, it's great. This is what grows a beautiful society when we grow together. Our main problems are war, our violence, are people killing each other, right? That's hilarious. It's not you apologizing for having an opinion about politics and looking weak. Oh man, we have too many weak men out there apologizing. We need to never apologize, right? This is the exact thing that is like this thought process is the exact thought process that has like caused all the problems ever. It's like we must show strength, we must show strength, kill them, kill them at all costs. We must show strength, we are better than them. They are inferior. I uh only blonde haired blue eyes can live, right? This is the exact thought process, right? Inferior, superior, inferior, superior, inferior, superior, right? Our main problems in this world, guys, what are they? War, obviously, violence, right? People killing each other, starvation, all this stuff, right? But it's not it, Jerry, too many people saying they're sorry. That's completely missing your point. It's the point of the false game of reputation. Your entire aim of your spirituality is not only to create inner peace, inner knowing through your accent ascension, it is to do this exact same thing with the world around you. When you find inner peace and inner knowing and clarity and ascend through your flaws and transmute your negativity into positivity, you do this for yourself. And yes, you also do this for others, which is also for yourself, selfishly or unselfishly, whatever you want to argue there. But this is all you literally came here to do. If you are here, you have no other real mission. You're here on earth meant to learn and ascend, not to shell up in your strength and being a man. You aren't even a man, you're a spiritual being, bro. You are everything. Yet you consolidate yourself to this man. Consolidate yourself to this shell with your ego and your negativity with all these false beliefs of who you have to be and the power you seek and the status you seek as the wars and the violence continues to wage. You ask no questions of yourself. You ask no questions of your spirit as you see the corruption before your eyes. You ask no questions and seek no answers of how you are part of the equation. You point your finger outward constantly without ever truly examining yourself and putting yourself on an even playing field as your fellow spirits. You always have to be above them, you always have to be right. See, the dollar amount, so to speak, that each of us put on using the word sorry is extremely telling of our spirituality. As we purify our spirits, we realize oneness. We realize the one love, and this is all that matters. We notice the issues of our world, the disagreements which wage to war, all because someone on one side or both could not sacrifice this seemingly massively heavy duty to simply admit wrongdoing and apologize. And we realize that these apologies at every moment are actually not even this weakness. In fact, these apologies are this strength. They are the strength to be wrong, they are the strength to show vulnerability, they are the strength to build the connection. These apologies are the bridge to our understanding. These apologies are the bridge to our connection, they are the bridge to our heaven. Because when we dip ourselves low into this state of, I'll do better next time, what happens? What actually happens when we actually believe that we have to do better next time? Guys, it's simple. It's like a staircase, boom, boom, boom. Oh, I'll do better next time, okay. We're higher. Okay. Do better next time? Okay, we're higher. Do better next time? We're higher. But what happens when we have leaders, people in our world who don't think they ever have to do better? We're just not going up the stairs. We're just not going up the stairs. So is this what how every kid feels in their own home? That's how we build paradise. Yeah. When we say we are sorry, we are building the bridge to heaven. Final note here on this podcast, though, folks. Really nice houses. I don't want you to uh misinterpret what I'm saying. In the sense that you are not always wrong. I'm not trying to say that. You in fact are often right. You are born beautifully right. You're just trying to remember, right? We're all here trying to remember and find our way back to memory of being right, how we were when we were born in our purity, right? You're often on the right track as you are right now, however old you are, whatever you're doing, you're you're often right. You're on the right track. And there's much you do not need to apologize for. I'm not saying you always need to apologize, but what I am saying is if you never ask, where am I going wrong, if you never take the time to examine where you might need to wipe yourself off, so to speak, sorry for the gross analogy, you will be in that middle ground state of the flower where you think you're just chilling and you're just stagnant, right? But you're actually withering away. You will actually be killing your spirituality. So we must often check in with ourselves and examine where we need to quickly and simply take a deep breath and say, I'm sorry. Do better next time. Pick up and learn our flaws and move on. It doesn't cost you anything. In fact, not doing so costs you everything. I love you so much. I'll see you on the next episode. Peace. That's Tali. Dude, that's who that was. That's his sister, yeah. That's his sister. Holy shit. Yeah. I thought that was. I thought the toe was like one of these friends. She's grown up. Oh my god, dude. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god, you fucking injuries. Oh my gosh, life's going so fast. That's Talios. Sometimes those people age differently too. You are now tuned into the best podcast in the world. No, but I'm just saying, in the sense that, like, dude, she's completely grown up. That's crazy. I haven't seen that in like 25 years. That's a lot of things. Somehow we don't teach the stuff. Somehow in life we always give up. That was a trick. That's I I remember when we were like jogging, you like you mean Ezra and maybe Fritz were jogging through the neighborhood. And like it was like a recollection. Like you were like, we were like going through like Yeah. I'm very reminiscent, very That's why this is good for my talking shot. Is that an escalade? Is it I'm not gonna armor this. Alright man, um, let's see, I gotta go to Whole Foods. Do you mind driving separately? No. That way I'm just I'm just kind of doing a lot of driving. Yeah. Um Do you wanna come to Whole Foods with me or do you want me to just text you when I've dropped all my groceries off? Yeah. And then am I are we going are we going separately or am I picking you up at your at your No no, we're going separately. Decision made it. Last time we went to Micondo, that was not a good choice. It didn't work. It didn't work. It worked, but it didn't work. Yeah. Like it like it was obviously it was fine, but it could have been. There's something was slightly wrong. Something not only slightly. I was gonna do it. I was in the world. That wasn't. No, no, not at all. I'm just counting. Yeah. I think I even did like I think I even like at the end of the night I was like kind of pissed off. I was like, what the fuck was that? Like, something was weird about this. Like a cold, dreary. Do you want me to go down this way or? Oh, sure, yeah. Oh, actually it doesn't matter. Because I can't fucking I still have to go up this way because I can't. You know when you fucking install you install a garage clicker, you have to like fucking like install the code again too? I didn't do that. Oh no.