Living Untethered: Beyond the Human Predicament

To get closer to becoming one with flow, you must surrender your entire sense of separation. It’s not enough to experience the energy, you must release yourself into it. As you let go, the flow will pull you in.

The deepest truth is that it doesn’t even matter what you do. What matters is where you’re coming from. What matters is your motive. If your motive is to let go of yourself and serve the moment in front of you, you are worthy of great respect.

Heretofore, you’ve practiced surrender by letting go of your lower self. Now that you’ve learned to feel this higher energy flow inside, you surrender to it. Until this final surrender, there is still a subject-object experience: consciousness (subject) is experiencing the shakti flow (object). If you want to truly know the flow, you must fall into

The higher energies are beautiful. They’re much more beautiful than the expression of the lower energies. As you open up, life is no longer about seeking nonnegative states; it becomes about allowing ever-increasing, positive states. Growth used to be about not feeling anger or anxiety anymore. Now it’s about feeling so much overwhelming love when

“Is there something I can be doing to serve the moment in front of me?

This is the place from which you are noticing the inner commotion, and this place is still, quiet, and there are never any storms. That is the seat of Self. You don’t find your way back to Self—you simply cease to leave. If you work on this, you will come to a beautiful state within that is always there for you. It is a place of refuge, and all you

Don’t believe those who say you can’t enjoy happiness unless you also know sadness. That is not true. That’s what life is like if you are still blocked. Once you’re unblocked, you will notice the energy is always beautiful. It is an ever-new rush of uplifting joy that raises your heart, your mind, and everything inside you.

Who said you had to take the whole football team home with you? Just relax and let go, and the whole struggle will be over. That’s exactly what it’s like to surrender. You’re in there, and the energy is pulling you into it. Please don’t fight it. Just relax your inner hands and let go. If this sounds very Zen, good, because it is. You don’t need to

Once the energy starts spontaneously flowing, you won’t touch it. You just respect it, honor it, and appreciate it. You inwardly say, “Thank you,” and keep letting go. That becomes your only prayer—thank you, thank you so much.