The Authentic Self

everyone has some highest Revelation right now the way the ego relates to that is it's a ceiling this is this the ego goes that's the highest I've been you know that that up there you know and usually it's at a particular point in time like on a retreat or with with a particular teacher or reading a particular book or on a particular hike or whatever some moment where something happened and you went oh my God right and the ego goes that was my highest moment and I'm some down here and that moment's up there and you know and that's it doesn't feel bad or that has no that's just the way it is but to the authentic self that highest moment is its floor it goes okay that's where I start from and then I go from there it doesn't it's not interested in what in anything below that because the authentic self just that's it that's its lowest level that's it doesn't want to go below that it doesn't it doesn't see any sense in going below that it doesn't why would you go below you know it's and from the authentic self point of view it makes no sense at all to be anywhere but at least at your highest level that's got to be your that's that's your floor you know that's the floor that's the ground under your feet and then from there you want to go up you know and and then then you have again you look in your experience these tenants are what's going to liberate that part of yourself to to to be what guides your choices and your actions and and that's you know and and we aren't there most of us you know we're we're just just not but but we can get there and in this teaching this is the prescription for getting there