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What Really Is
How would life look if we knew that we are not our thoughts?
2021
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3.43
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Our true nature is simple and beautiful, thoughts are complicated and intricate. Learn to know the difference. Our true nature is always present, in each moment, as it is now. We didn’t create it and we can’t stop it. Yet we’ve been taught that what we can’t perceive with our mind and senses is not real, that intuition is unreliable and living like this is dangerous, immature and irresponsible. The truth is contrary to this. Our thoughts and understandings are by their very nature temporary and fragile. They come from the assumption that we can actually know or control things. And so we defend, attack, withdraw, and even kill or die for these beliefs. But when we do, the essence of our true spirit is brutally pushed aside and we lose so much of life. What Really Is comes to convey life and the world, not as the interpreting mind describes them, but in their original form – the essence is to know the difference.

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Ruth Bar-Shalev
Ruth Bar-Shalev
Author · 1 book

Ruth has been coaching for the past 30 years and was one of the pioneers of coaching in Israel. She has led and facilitated breakthrough processes in many different fields; working with the military, women’s organizations, the Israeli Office of Education, and with the bond between Arabs & Jews both in Israel and internationally. Ruth has coached thousands of people, hundreds of businesses, state institutions, and trained dozens of coaches. In her personal and professional journey, she has recognized that in each one lies a beautiful and strong spirit, that if we just touch upon it, it will allow us to simply live our true nature – a unique, emerging, vital energy, which is ungraspable but always present. Along with this spirit, there is the dimension of thought, which cannot grasp the world for what it is – beauty, wisdom and absolute love. It captures the world through friction, prices, effort and pain, and these are also its results. Her work is expressed in her first book – “WHAT REALLY IS”, which brings the knowledge as it is, the nature of things and discerns between the motion of thoughts and the wisdom of the mystery. Ruth is a mother of 4, and a grandmother to 2 grandchildren.

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