It is all One.

The whole system that we live in,
drills into us that we are powerless,
that we are weak, that society is evil,
that it's crime ridden and so forth.
It is all a big fat lie!
We are powerful,
beautiful, extraordinary.
There is no reason
why we cannot understand
who we truly are;
where we are going.
There is no reason why the average
individual cannot be fully empowered.
We are
incredibly powerful beings.
I think
I spent 30 years of my life,
the first 30,
trying to become something.
I wanted to become
good at things,
I wanted to become good
at tennis and school and grades.
And everything I kinda
viewed in that perspective,
I'm not okay the way I am,
but if I got good at things...
I realized that
I had the game wrong.
Because the game was to
find out what I already was.
Now, in our culture we have been trained
for individual differences to stand out.
So you look at each person
and the immediate hit is.
Brighter, dumber, older,
younger, richer, poorer...
And we make all these
dimensional distinctions,
put them in categories
and treat them that way.
And get so we only see others
as separate from ourselves
in the ways
in which they are separate.
And one of the dramatic
characteristics of experience
is being with another person
and suddenly seeing
the ways in which they are like you,
not different from you.
And experiencing the fact
that which is essence in you,
which is essence in me,
is indeed, One.
The understanding that there
is no other. It is all One.
I wasn't born Richard Albert,
I was just born as a human being
and then I learned
this whole business of who I am,
and whether I'm good or bad,
or achieving or not...
All that's learned
along the way.