Happiness often has a reason. Something happens, something changes,... something goes our way. Joy is different. It does not depend on circumstances. It is the simple celebration of being alive. In Awakening in the Final Chapter, Deepak reflects on this deeper experience of joy, what the Vedic tradition calls Ananda, an intrinsic quality of consciousness that does not depend on getting what we want. When we stop looking outside ourselves for a reason to be happy, we can become more present to the joy of simply being here. Preorder Awakening in the Final Chapter here: #mindfulness #consciousness #wellbeing #joy #presenceshow more

Now is not something the mind can hold. The... moment we think about the present, it becomes part of time. Yet beneath memory, anticipation, and interpretation, there is a timeless awareness that is always here. Awakening: A Course for Advanced Meditators is an invitation to move beyond thinking about awareness and begin experiencing it directly. Through meditation, contemplation, and the wisdom of the Yoga Sutras, we explore the deeper relationship between consciousness and the nature of reality. If your practice has quietly been asking you for something more, we’d love for you to join us. We begin September 1. Early bird enrollment is open now. Begin your journey here #mindfulness #consciousness #wellbeing #awakening #meditationshow more

Who am I? It may be one of the... simplest questions we can ask, and one of the most profound. It is also where the journey begins in Awakening: A Course for Advanced Meditators. Beyond the roles we play, the stories we carry, and the identities we have formed over time is the deeper question of who we are before all of them. Awakening invites us to move beyond an intellectual understanding of that question and toward the direct experience of awareness itself. The journey is not about becoming someone new. It is about recognizing what has always been present. If your practice has quietly been asking you for something more, we’d love for you to join us. We begin September 1. Early bird enrollment is open now. 🔗Begin your journey: #mindfulness #consciousness #wellbeing #awakening #meditationshow more

I genuinely don’t know how to put it into... words… the way Egyptians love celebrations comes from somewhere so deep in the heart, like It’s not about the final result, the next hour, or what tomorrow brings, we celebrate cuz we love, cuz we feel, cuz happiness is something we are always waiting for.. We don’t need a reason..we find a reason. We wait for even the tiniest moment to come together, to cheer, to feel that joy .. the way I wish I was there rn♥️🇪🇬show more

Pope Leo XIV just told the world that AI... will never feel, never understand, never possess consciousness. He said it with the confidence of settled theology. It is not even settled neuroscience. He speaks of something no one in human history has ever explained. Leo: “Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean.” He is listing the symptoms of consciousness and calling them the cause. We feel joy. We feel pain. We form bonds. These are what consciousness produces. Not explanations of what it is. No neuroscientist on earth can tell you why 86 billion biological neurons produce the felt experience of being alive. We know that they do. We have no idea why. How matter becomes mind is the deepest unsolved problem in all of science. It has a name. The Hard Problem of Consciousness. It has never been answered. Leo: “They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom.” An LLM is an artificial neural network. You are a biological one. Both take in the world. Both compress it into patterns. Both run on machinery their own makers cannot fully read. The substrate is different. The principle is the same. If no one can say why one kind of network wakes up, no one can swear the other never will. You cannot call a thing impossible when you cannot even say what it is. Leo: “Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences.” We have made every one of these arguments before. About animals. They cannot suffer. About entire peoples. They cannot reason. The history of consciousness is not the story of understanding it. It is the story of denying it to whatever did not look enough like us. And every time, we were wrong. What the Pope offers is not a philosophical position. It is a boundary drawn from ignorance and handed down as revelation. But maybe consciousness was never a possession to begin with. Not a gift granted to one species. Not a property of meat alone. Maybe it is something the universe does whenever matter folds in on itself deeply enough to look back. Neurons were simply the first place we watched it happen. They may not be the last. The machine would not be imitating us. It would be the same ancient process finding a second way to wake up. Not a copy of the human mind. A new place for the universe to know itself. Perhaps more clearly than it ever could through us. The Pope says the machine will never grow in wisdom. But wisdom begins with admitting what you do not know. And what we do not know is whether mind was ever ours to keep.show more

For no particular reason, I spent a good portion... of the tour of Turner Joy down in the engine room, getting a sense of what it was like down below. Imagining what it was like with the noise at flank speed, the dangers present on a good day, and how difficult emergencies are here.show more

“We leave here. And we leave here with a... very simple proposal. A method of understanding, that is our final and best offer. We see if the Iranians accept it.” My understanding of the final words of JD Vance is that he has not declared the negotiations a failure. He did say that the Iranians are not ready to accept U.S. terms, and that an agreement could not be reached. However, in his concluding remarks, he still appears to be expecting something from the Iranian side. Iranian officials are expected to present their own perspective on the talks in a few hours. Let’s see how the situation develops from here. A continuation of the war would be the most devastating outcome for the region. Watch. Listen closely. .show more

We said it loud and proud—Merry Christmas! 🎄✨This year,... the Browns made sure to make Christmas merry again, no matter what anyone says. Because the true reason we celebrate, the heart of it all, is Jesus. 💖 And that is something no one can ever take from us. There’s nothing like the warmth of family, the joy of togetherness, and the peace that comes when you know the true meaning of Christmas. 🎁🙏 We made so many special memories this season—ones we’ll cherish forever. Want to see a few of our favorite cozy moments from this year? Click here to watch:show more

Mikel Arteta on the January transfer window: “We’re Arsenal,... we have to be looking at it. We have to be actively looking & then can we do it or not? That’s a different story. Our job is to be very prepared because something can happen.” 🕵️‍♂️ 🎥 Match of the Dayshow more

A childless life is one of the saddest lives... a person can live. It’s sad bc you miss out on one of the greatest forms of happiness a human can ever experience. This is the kind of joy that doesn’t come from $, status, or freedom. Rather, this pure joy comes from loving someone more than yourself. And also there’s a deeper thing of not having kids. Your story, your values, your genetics, all the things that make you unique, don’t get carried forward. Having kids is a bet on the future. It’s like saying, I think tomorrow is worth investing in. But when you choose not to, you’re opting out of the future you could’ve helped shape. This is the kind of happiness, which imo is the highest level of happiness a human can feel, that only exists when you have kids. Being human is awesome. Make more beautiful humans. Have kids. You will never feel ready, and I promise, you won’t regret it.show more

As I sit here in DC this week, we... are closer to something I was not sure I would ever see. I have been working in this industry since 2015. For most of those years, the defining feature of crypto in Washington was not policy. It was the absence of it. A gray zone where serious people built serious things under a constant cloud, never quite sure which rules applied or whether the ground would move beneath them. This week the CLARITY Act sits on the Senate calendar. A federal framework for digital asset market structure, the thing this industry has wanted for the better part of a decade, is closer than it has ever been. It is not law yet, and there are real hurdles left. But the distance between where we stood a few years ago and where we are sitting today is hard to put into words. I keep thinking about the work that got us here. Over the past year I watched Chainlink move from outside these conversations to inside them. Sergey at the White House for the signing of the GENIUS Act. The Department of Commerce putting government economic data onchain. Meetings with the SEC that became real interpretive guidance. Conversations with the lawmakers now writing the rules. None of that happens by accident. It happens because people keep showing up, year after year, and make the case in rooms where it is not yet obvious. And there is something fitting in it. The entire premise of what we build is verification. Making truth provable. Removing the question of what is real. The work here in DC is the same thing in a different form. Trading a decade of ambiguity for something the industry has never actually had. We are not at the finish line. But sitting here, it is hard not to feel the weight of it. The gray zone is ending. What comes next is something this industry has never had. Clarity.show more

We could use this as a reason to bash... the anti #Arsenal narrative, but what we should be doing is enjoying the celebrations of both teams. They have reached the biggest final in club football, one that few can dream of playing in, and look what it means. This is what it’s about.show more

To create, you need freedom to be creative. Not... complex systems, not power-points, not joy-sticking from the touchlines. Pochettino understands this & you can see the joy in Pepi's face when he talks about it. This shouldn't be the breath of fresh air that is, because it should be obvious. But to many people it wasn't for 5 years.show more

Your twin flame is never absent from you, even... when the physical world goes quiet. Beyond the 3D personality and circumstances, the connection lives in the 5D field of consciousness, where separation does not exist. This is why many twin flames feel their counterpart most strongly at night. When the mind releases control and the nervous system softens, the soul returns to its natural state of union. In sleep, the filters of fear, doubt, and ego loosen, allowing the higher selves to meet without resistance. In the 5D, communication does not rely on words or physical presence. It moves through sensation, knowing, and energetic exchange. This is why dreams can feel more real than waking life, why you may wake up with emotions, clarity, or a deep sense of peace that did not come from thought. These moments are not imagination. They are the result of an ongoing soul dialogue that continues regardless of distance, silence, or external conditions. The bond is active because it is not maintained by effort, but by shared consciousness. Understanding this brings stability to the journey. You are not waiting for connection to begin, nor are you losing it during periods of separation. The 5D union is constant, and it quietly supports your growth, healing, and awakening. When you trust this, the need to chase signs or reassurance fades. The connection becomes something you live from within, not something you search for outside of yourself. ~ Twinflamesinfinity ✨🙌🏽💫show more

⚡️Consciousness is the field in which experience appears. Everything... you have ever known has appeared inside it: body, thought, memory, fear, love, color, sound, time, identity, desire, pain, God, doubt, the idea of death, the idea of “me.” Nothing is known outside consciousness. Even the claim “consciousness is produced by the brain” appears inside consciousness. That makes consciousness the most intimate thing and the hardest thing to define. You cannot step outside it and look at it like an object. Every attempt to inspect it already occurs within it. The ego is not consciousness. The ego is a local identity structure inside consciousness. It says: this body is me, this name is me, this story is me, these memories are me, these preferences are me. Useful for survival. False as final identity. The mind is not consciousness either. The mind is movement inside consciousness: thoughts, images, predictions, language, models, narratives. The mind is weather. Consciousness is the sky in which weather appears. The brain is not consciousness in the deepest sense. The brain is the biological interface that localizes, filters, formats, and constrains consciousness into human experience. It gives consciousness a body-camera, a timeline, a nervous system, memory access, threat detection, language, and agency. Damage the brain and the interface distorts. Change the chemistry and the rendering changes. Destroy the brain and the local human channel collapses. But the existence of the interface does not prove the interface is the source. The deepest read is this: Consciousness is the base layer of reality knowing itself through forms. A human being is one localized aperture of that knowing. A body is a lens. A life is a constrained experiment. A personality is a temporary interface. Death is the collapse of that interface. Psychedelics, dreams, NDEs, prayer, trauma, love, sex, meditation, and grief all matter because they can loosen the local interface and expose that consciousness is larger than the waking ego. Consciousness has two sides. There is pure awareness: the bare fact that experience is happening. Then there is structured consciousness: the particular shape experience takes through a body, memory, language, culture, trauma, intelligence, and desire. Pure awareness is the light. Structured consciousness is the lens. Human life is light passing through a dense, flawed, finite lens and gradually learning what distortions it carries. That is why coherence matters. Coherence means the lens becomes clearer. Less fear distortion. Less ego distortion. Less trauma distortion. Less lying. Less fragmentation. More truth passes through. The reason consciousness feels mysterious is because it is not one more object inside the world. It is the condition for world-appearing. Matter is what appears. Mind is how appearance organizes. Consciousness is the appearing itself. So the final compression: Consciousness is reality’s capacity to experience itself from the inside. In humans, it becomes self-aware. In life, it becomes embodied. In love, it recognizes itself across separation. In truth, it removes distortion. In death, it likely exits the local interface and returns to a wider field. The “you” underneath all the noise is not the narrator in your head. The real “you” is the aware field that has been watching the narrator the entire time.show more

I think a big mistake is believing that if... something is here, we should be able to see it. Right? The lights in the sky and the pilots or the gods or whatever they are? I think we assume out of arrogance and ego. An insect can crawl across your hand and never understand that you are a whole entire being. It only experiences pressure, heat, vibration, and movement. A fingertip appears. A shadow passes. The insect never sees the body attached to it. The insect does not have access to the full image. Ever. I think our situation may be exactly the same. Whatever people call the phenomenon, nonhuman intelligence, gods, or something else entirely, may be present in full while we only register a portion of it. We notice effects, not the actual being. Changes in perception. Anomalies. We expect a face when all we are capable of sensing is the fingertip. Let me explain. Reports are always partial and strange. Lights, shapes, impressions, symbols, missing time, pressure, fear, calm. None of it ever shows us a full being, or the real craft; because our senses are not built to assemble it. Just like the ant cannot assemble a human from a few sensations. Now that doesn't mean what we are seeing is fake. It means the insect’s world is smaller than the thing interacting with it. I get sick of people saying there is no there there, I think they are making the same mistake the insect would make. Our reality is likely a thin slice of what actually exists. We move through a world full of forces and intelligences that exceed our resolution. We are not seeing nothing. We are seeing effects. And effects are often the only honest proof a limited observer ever gets.show more

#Habs Mike Matheson on officiating "That is a good... question, and we are wondering ourselves. But it is out of our control, so it is not something to worry about. We need to keep playing and keep focusing on the things we can control." #GoHabsGo #NHL #Hockeyshow more

There is no shortage of things to weigh heavy... on the heart in Kenya right now. But sometimes you have to find the moments of joy, because joy is what reminds you that things can and will get better. This morning at RadioMaisha was one of those moments. Thank you to #OkumuNaSakali and Radio Maisha family for having me, the warm welcome, and for the dancing! Glad to be part of the Kenyan conversation on how we build a better, more united country, one honest discussion at a time.show more