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

Joy, joy, joy! 🥳 BINI_PH's In-Studio recording of 'Joy... To The World' is out now! ✨ Grab your friends and family and watch it together on our YouTube channel here: #BINI #BINI_JoyToTheWorldshow 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

The women often ask me: “But why is he... doing everything for you? What does he get in return?” And honestly, I don’t understand the question. Why do we automatically assume that a woman being served must come with a transaction? Why is it so difficult to imagine that my presence, my attention, my energy, my femininity, my leadership — can be enough? Why do we find it shocking when a man willingly chooses to serve a woman simply because he genuinely enjoys it? Not because he is being forced. Not because he is being manipulated. Not because he is “getting something back” in the conventional sense. But because giving can be a source of pleasure too. We are so conditioned to believe that men must receive, conquer, possess and dominate. What if some men simply find fulfillment in giving? And what if being served isn’t a woman taking something from a man… but a man expressing exactly what he wants to give? #FreeWill #Serve #FLR #Reflectionshow 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

YOUR BODY IS MORE THAN FLESH. IT IS A... UNIVERSE OF ENERGY. The awakening begins when you stop identifying only with the physical and start exploring the deeper connection between body, mind, spirit, and consciousness. The kundalini represents the potential for inner transformation. The chakras symbolize different dimensions of our inner experience, from survival and emotion to love, intuition, and spiritual awareness. You are not here to escape your humanity. You are here to become fully conscious within it. AWAKEN THE ENERGY. EXPAND THE CONSCIOUSNESS. REMEMBER THE SOURCE.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

We’re constantly being sold the idea that our bodies... need fixing, improving, or changing before we can feel good about ourselves. Getting older is part of being alive, and learning to appreciate yourself through every chapter is something worth celebrating. ✨show more

We are connected to life in ways we do... not always stop to notice. Every breath, every relationship, and every experience reminds us that we are part of something larger than ourselves. When we remember that connection, we begin to see ourselves, and each other, with greater awareness. #mindfulness #consciousness #wisdom #awareness #connectionshow more

Red mercury, in the language of the alchemists, is... not a metal but the hidden fire of the blood; the condensed, living current that refuses to be captured by surface, by ego, by the world of appearances. The mirror can only reflect what has already hardened into form; it cannot hold what is still becoming. Garlic however, the pungent guardian of the threshold, does not repel a demon so much as it names the boundary: the dense, earthy, solar body will not host what feeds on shadow and imitation. So the experiment is not about a forbidden compound. It is about whether you know the reflection is you. When the substance of the soul will not appear in the glass, and when the old protections of the earth still work, you are being shown that consciousness is not an image, it is a current that can only be known by what it refuses to become.show more

When we travel, we visit temples and churches to... reflect on faith and tolerance and to enjoy the beauty of their architecture. But did you know we have a masterpiece right here in Abu Dhabi? The BAPS Hindu Mandir. Today I visited it for the first time, for Diwali, to see the place. Honestly, it amazed me in every way. The tolerance I saw in their eyes, and the joy, were the same joy we feel when we see visitors walk into Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque. I felt the true value of tolerance and respect. We are all children of this land, created to build it, whatever our religions, races and beliefs. With all these differences, we are brought together by tolerance, respect and love. This is the UAE, and this is what we believe. Happy Diwali to all Hindus in the UAE and around the world 🪔🇦🇪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

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

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