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There is no negative conspiracy that says, ‘We will leave him out from the experience of his Being.’ If you are left out, it is because you have not done your homework, your inner work. You need to inform your faculties–your mind, emotions and feelings, your intellect and intuition–what their task is. ‘Mind, here is what I want you do to in this life.’ If you do not attune your faculties to your Self, what else can you expect but distraction?

I showed some acquaintances our new CD, The Cave Meditation. They asked what was on it. I said they would be guided step-by-step into a state of meditation on the subtlest, deepest and highest levels, beginners and experienced meditators alike. You just listen and tune in, focus, and go along with it. Every time you engage in this meditation, if you are attentive, you go to deeper and deeper levels. Their response was, “That sounds really scary. You mean you have to be really quiet inside?” Yes! But what is scary about not being distracted? What is scary about being with yourself?

It frightens people to be with themselves. That is why they have to distract themselves with a noisy life, with many arguments–with dysfunctional life patterns that are so demanding there is no time to be with themselves.

It is like someone who is afraid to be with his or her mate and so stays out late night after night. When they get home, they are too tired or distracted to relate with their mate. That is how they are with themselves. They are unfaithful to themselves.