It doesn't begin with a splash of insight.

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Or a roaring silence.

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The momoent might not be the most pleasant.

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And it could seem a little too ordinary.

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For the beginning of presence is not some huge revelation.

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Not some flash of deep awareness.

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Revealing the secrets of the universe and beyond.

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No, it starts much simpler than that.

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So simple, we might just mis it.

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We might find ourselves questioning, is that really it?

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For the beginning of presence comes from something so much more basic.

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From that split second when we realize we are not present at all.

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That might seem like a paradox.

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For how can we have presence from the act of recognizing that we're not present?

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Yet that simple awareness is more profound than we can imagine.

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More deep than we can comprehend.

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All presence begins with the act of seeing that we have not been present for so much of our lives.

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We are where we are because of that lack of presence.

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So that insight is the first step onto the path of true presence.

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Of the awareness that now we can tell the difference.

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As if someone just turned on a light for the first time and we can see everything we never saw before.

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Presence can be blinding to the mind.

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Yet the body knows that feelings all too well.

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Once we have come to that place where we are aware that we are not present, we can begin our long journey on the path towards presence.

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Step by step, inch by inch, we move ever so slowly to the meadow of presence that we long for.

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That we both desire and fear.

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For presence is not something to take lightly.

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Once we set upon the path to greater presence, there is not turning back.

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No falling back into unconsciousness.

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It is now our life.

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We become consumed by the fire of our own desire to be present to life itself.

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Regardless of the pain or challenges we meet along the way.

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There is no turning back for us now.

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Life has brought us to this most delicate point, and we have no choice but to follow through.

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To take the next step.

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And the next.

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Until we are so embedded into the path itself that we cannot remember a time when we were not aware of presence.

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In our own lives, and everyone else's.

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We now know the truth.

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Seeing ourselves so clearly.

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Our presence is hard won, and we will not give it up easily.

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So now we travel this new path that leads us only into mystery.

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And we would have it no other way.

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Welcome to the new world of presence, and to your next evolutionary step.

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~ Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant

Host of The Conscious Consultant Hour