Meeting Life New: The Uniqueness Within the Sameness
When we come together… we owe it to each other to bring the whole of ourselves.
To energise this space.
Some of you have come from a long way away to be here.
So if you’re here, it means something in you is hungry. Spiritually hungry.
Hungry enough to override common sense.
And that’s the point at which things get interesting.
Because… when did you ever meet someone who lived their life completely by common sense… and felt inspired by them?
No — it’s when Life is lived by spirit, by that deep nonsensical place in us that wants to thrive… that’s when Life comes alive.
That’s when I get interested.
Each satsang, we approach the practice in a slightly different way.
Why? So that it can open us in new ways. So it can enter us in fresh ways.
That’s the story of Life, really.
It’s not that Life has to change for us.
We have to change in the way we meet Life.
Most of us fall under the illusion:
“When Life brings me something new, then I’ll change.”
But if the same old you meets that new thing… what has really changed?
So it’s the same old you that has to shift.
Then even if Life keeps bringing the same circumstances… each time, you can meet it fresh.
Meet Life new.
Stop waiting for Life to deliver you something different.
Recently we’ve been reminding ourselves about the uniqueness inside the oneness.
There is only one energy, one intelligence, one consciousness.
And that one is constantly adapting, constantly forming itself in infinite, unique expressions.
And you are one of those expressions.
The key word is unique.
The One has never manifested the same thing twice.
It never has, it never will.
Just imagine living life that way!
The reason we get bored with ourselves, the reason we feel stuck, is because we fall into our own self-constructed sameness.
Same day, same job, same life.
We convince ourselves that Life is repeating… because it feels safer.
But really, it’s just us hedging our bets. Playing the safe game.
Hiding behind “common sense.”
And then our uniqueness — which is still there — doesn’t get a look in.
It gets caged by our sameness.
Now, even that is part of the possibilities inside the oneness. So it’s not “wrong.”
But the question is — is that the option we want to take?
Another option is to allow that uniqueness to erupt through us.
Because it’s always there, pressing, wanting to erupt out of the One.
Here’s the truth:
You can never actually do the same thing twice.
Nature won’t let you.
Life won’t let you.
Transformation is a fact.
Life is continuous transformation.
It cannot repeat itself.
But we can delude ourselves.
We can build a cage of sameness.
And that’s how we limit Life’s power to transform us.
Yoga is simply the dismantling of that cage.
So that the power of transformation can be unleashed in us.
So that we become fresh. Utterly unique.
And remember — this doesn’t have to look a particular way.
In fact, it cannot look a particular way.
If your enlightenment journey is real, it will not fit a model.
We can share the same path, do the same kriyas, sit in the same satsangs…
but the eruption that happens in you will look different to the one that happens in the person next to you.
Hallelujah for that.
Imagine if all our awakenings looked the same — who’d want to be on that path?
We’re here because this is a path that allows the authentic flavour of your life to erupt.
So don’t think you have to repress yourself.
You don’t have to get rid of your habits or your tendencies.
Offer them.
Offer every part of yourself.
Because when they’re contracted, they cause problems.
But when they’re opened to transformation, they expand.
And the full transformation cannot happen unless the whole of you is offered.
The bits you love.
The bits you hate.
The bits you don’t care about.
All in. Hook, line and sinker.
Rumi said: find a path that demands the whole of you.
And he said that path is Love.
And Love means every damn bit of you is included.
So that’s what satsang is for.
To keep us meeting Life’s transforming power.
To stop us drifting into safe mode, on repeat.
Each breath is already uniqueness erupting out of the oneness.
Let it happen.
You don’t need to make it happen.
It already wants to happen.
Just let it.
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