Salima Adelstein

There's a story of the river fish and the ocean fish, the sea fish.

The sea fish, bright colors, beautiful colors.

And he meets the river fish, who kind of is brownish, sort of dull color fish.

And the river fish looks at the sea fish and it

is a little bit envious and jealous of the bright colors and how beautiful he looks.

Ocean fish says to the river fish, oh come, come into my world and I'll show you my world and all the beauty in my world and you'll get to see all the wonders of this world.

So the river fish says, oh yes, I would love that and starts to follow the ocean fish towards the ocean.

And as he gets closer to the ocean, what he notices is his gills start to get tight.

He's having difficulty.

He feels himself starting to fade away.

And the ocean fish realized, oh, the river fish, his home is in the river.

That's where he thrives.

It's not for him to be like me.

That's what we're talking about when I talk about finding the inner truth.

And when you do, it makes your outer world easier to manage.

I used to meditate.

And when I meditated, my world was beautiful when I meditated and closed my eyes.

And then, like you said, I had to go out into the world and it wasn't such a great place.

Now, in these spiritual practices, right, that start with that, ah, in these spiritual practices, I now can do with my eyes open.

I don't need to close my eyes and be quiet.