Short - Is Loving Another Like Loving Another Version of You?

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So a few weeks ago I talked
about oneness, about how everybody just another

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version of you. Everybody see out
there driving or walking or being is just

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another version of you in a different
circumstance. Well, today, during my

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meditation, I got something else,
and it goes so much further than that.

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Now, I guess I mentioned.
The difficult part for me was acknowledging.

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Especially if someone's across the aisle and
thinking and doing things so completely different

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than you, it's hard to acknowledge
or recognize the fact that they are really

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just you in a different circumstance,
different experience. And that's okay, but

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it goes deeper than that. See, when I look across the aisle,

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when I look at another person that
is so completely foreign to me, that

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their thoughts, that we have been, their upbringing, their actions are so

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completely diametrically opposed to how I think
and feel and live. The disconnect is

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hard to bridge. There's a challenge
there, right, Well, here's what

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I need to challenge myself with is
not just reaching across the chasm and acknowledging

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that they're just another me, but
there has to be emotions attached to that

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acknowledgment. To the realization and recognition
I have to just truly feel love for

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that other person, because by feeling
love for that person, I'm actually feeling

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love for myself. I mean,
isn't that what everyone's telling us, that

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you have to love yourself first?
Well, what if loving yourself first goes

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way beyond what we've originally thought it
was. What if loving yourself first means

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loving everyone first and only? Yeah, it's a little weird. In my

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meditation just now, for some reason, I saw somebody that I'm friendly with,

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but there's just something that kind of
just keeps us a little bit distant.

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Right, there's nothing, nothing,
no animosity. I mean, we're

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fine, we're friendly, but there's
nothing that brings us together unless we're in

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a social situation. Well, in
this meditation, I saw myself suddenly recognizing,

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like truly recognizing him as me.
And when I greeted him hello,

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I reached out and I hugged him, which is, I mean, something

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we do regularly right when we see
each other. But this hug was different.

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See, this was I love you
hug, and not in a weird

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way, but like in a I
recognize you hug. I recognize you,

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and I love you as who you
are, just love which is me another

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me. I guess that the whole
nama stay thing right. I recognize the

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divinity inside you, acknowledge the divinity
divinity inside you. I guess maybe that

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goes a lot deeper than I ever
thought it did. So for this guy,

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I recognized the divinity inside him,
but I recognized the will inside him,

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and by will I mean me,
and I hugged him, reconnecting with

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me at the heart level, and
it brought this incredibly overwhelming joy inside me

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for just that time where I was
hugging him. And then it hit me

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that I think that's how we're supposed
to creach with a loving hug that reconnects

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you with that soul, that part
of you that has been separated from you

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from so long. So the next
time you see somebody out there and you

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greet them with a hug like we
sometimes oftentimes do, well, maybe we

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should allow your hug to go deeper
further, allow that hug to be a

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heart to heart connection with who you
truly are, Because at the end of

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the day, that's what we're doing, right, We're connecting with another version

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of us. And if we connect
heart to heart. Wow. I wonder

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if that would make the world a
better place. I can't imagine how it wouldn't