you’re not actually confused about what to do…you just need the courage to do what you know is right

and what i began to realize is that the mind is the matrix in and of itself because i can tell you right now today in this moment i promise you the matrix has you this is water to a fish water is so ubiquitous it ceases to exist now we all have that same thing and it's playing on us and it's keeping us from becoming who we want to become and that thing is our mindset it's our belief system it is so ever present it is so ingrained into the fabric of who you are and the way that you process data you don't even notice it you don't even know that it's real and this is the thing that impacts your life it is your inability to see that your mindset controls everything that it is water in and of itself now when i heard this from shakespeare i realized that once you become aware of the water you can change everything that you can go from a scared lost kid to whomever you want to be [Music] there's a lesson in this story so many things are trying to come to you so many doors are trying to open but we're so attached to who we've been that we can't quite become all of who we're supposed to be there becomes a time when you no longer fit in your old story there's a new part too trying to be born for you and it requires you to own every part of the past but on every part of the possibility and on the other side of that the diamonds that will drop out of your mouth the the diamonds that will convert them from your soul the seeds that will be planted and the harvest that will grow you will be barely recognizable but better than that are the people around you because when you change you as just one person but when you become a force to be reckoned with then your voice permeates [Music] you are who you've been looking for so stop looking for more unless you're looking in a mirror because it's about time for you to see clearly that you are who you've been looking for and that empty feeling you got that hole in your chest you only got that feeling because you think you're not blessed with everything you need and yes love is the answer love is the key but if you can't love yourself how can you ever love me and loving yourself what does that even mean like massages and selfies and that sort of thing because the more i think about it the more it feels weird i've always been taught that self-love was something to be feared i've been taught that arrogance is bad and vanity it's not good what should i do how should i act i'm supposed to love myself but how do i even do that how many of you within the course of your lifetime have the capacity to be peaceful the capacity to be peaceful if you have the capacity to be peaceful then you are already moving in the right direction because we as human beings naturally and innately have the capacity to be peaceful because when we are at peace with ourselves we are experiencing our enlightened consciousness yes so this is how transformation works we have to let go of all the golden carrots that have been dangled in front of us of success of accumulation of being more because more isn't necessarily more do you understand that pain plus reflection equals progress if you take away reflection out of that equation all you're left with is pain right if pain plus reflection equals progress and you take away reflection all you're left with is pain there's no progress and for a lot of us when we're experiencing pain when we're experiencing stress when we're experiencing pressure when we're experiencing challenges we forget to reflect and when you forget to reflect you lose the opportunity for a real progress we forget to reflect because we get distracted we try to avoid pain or we try to numb pain but when we reflect on pain we have the opportunity to have progress in our lives treat yourself like someone you love treat yourself like someone you love now i had been standing but i needed to be sitting because i couldn't believe that i had been letting myself keep forgetting that i was who i'd been looking for and deep in my core i knew it was time to stop looking for more until i could look through all my fear and look into a mirror and see clearly that the man looking back at me is the only one who can make me happy and i am already enough [Music] what's my next step and so i'd go immediately into action and you know i find that when we ask the universities questions a lot of clarity emerges you have to ask the question first but if you ask life what's my next step to get to that future which looks impossible from this perspective you will start to intuitively know what that next step is so the true source of influence is your service to something higher without that you're living a life of manipulation trying to get something to be successful however when you begin to surrender your life to something higher an attribute of the presence even your definition of success changes this too shall pass whatever you're feeling whether you're feeling great or whether you're feeling terribly it's going to pass so helping people understand that that will pass that there will be something beautiful again waiting for them we have to redefine success to be peace because if you are not at peace you are not successful you get that if pain is driving your need to produce if you are not successful you're running away from something so it's not about who you are it's about who you want to become and the price you're willing to pay to get there become that person change the world change yourselves [Music] you