André Duqum

And the first principle is a way of kind of bringing this back home instead of seeing the pursuit of happiness and the goal of everlasting peace or fulfillment is on the other side of certain events.

Kind of collapsing it down and realizing we have the capacity to source that within ourself.

And so why do you think it's so pervasive to outsource our sense of freedom and safety and then let's walk us back home in our ability to source that ourself?

What do you wish to remind people about their fundamental wholeness?

In essence, if so much of our life is spent, unfortunately, in this like enchanted view of the world that it's going to happen after all these things, and in your own experience, and so many people you've helped kind of guide to that place as well, to experience that and to have a reference point for that level of freedom, irrespective of external circumstance, is the most liberating thing we can taste in our life.

And so what do you wish people were reminded of in regards to that?

Yeah.

It seems like a bit of a lubricant in terms of your experience of life.

There is that, again, that saying from the Gita that when you protect your Dharma, your Dharma protects you, protects you.

Um, and, uh,

It's just fascinating what comes on the path when you're living in alignment with that.

It does beg the question of how does one move from shoulds to like authentic dharma and discovery of that?

What have you found for people as the biggest catalyst to really discovering and living in that?

I'm like that 27, I'm 28.

So I'm like, I'm at that point where I'm transitioning into that full-time delegation of all the things that aren't highest priority value, most meaningful to me.

But is there something that just that feel that you feel called to share about what would serve someone like myself who's embarking on the journey of life, getting to hopefully living a life that is most meaningful and aligned with my values decades down the road?

I'm curious what you think of the balance between like realizing we're a creator of reality and we can have an intention and powerfully manifest things.

Oftentimes in earlier on in spiritual people's journey, it's at least in the West kind of directed towards materialistic purposes of trying to attract or make more money or whatever thing.

Right.

there's that but how do you balance that with the feeling of trust and surrender that what's meant for you will be yours and what's not meant for you you will never have and yeah taking the pressure off of trying to create your reality and kind of recognize the inherent abundance around you and and um allowing the like to be surprised by the universe in a way so like yeah how do you how do you balance between intentionally manifesting and attracting what you want versus