### Life Can't Be Any Newer than We Are Willing to Be

##### Key Lesson: The solution to escaping our dissatisfaction with life is unimaginable, because there's only one way beyond it: we must stop imagining that if we just keep reliving the same old hopes and dreams – walking the same old lines through time – then somehow, by some miracle, we'll step into a new life.

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Good morning. I always have to laugh in the morning when. We start our. Time together on insight Timer because I just never really know. If it's gonna work. Let's get it straight. There we go all right. Hi everyone. It is our. Appointed time on Saturday. I'm glad you're here or whatever day or time it is that you're. Joining me for these. Investigations these discoveries that were. Wanting to make. And I guess. As we wait for the people to roll in good morning. Good morning everybody. Shelby Bruce Angela Rebecca, it's working yeah. Let's just. Do something that we're going to really focus on today, which is let's bring ourselves and hopefully by the time we're done with our. Meeting we'll have understood this better bring ourselves back. Right now, wherever you are. Hopefully you're not trying to do two or three things at the same time. Be in our bodies. Attentive awake. And not just using our mind to think while I'm in my body, I'm awake that is, that is useless. I wanna look at something that. I tried to set the tone for it in the key lesson that I wrote. For this material, so I'm going to read it to you, and then I'll dive into the ideas that support it. And then. Hopefully you will be working alongside my. Line of thought and using your own experience to validate. To see the parallels. Because unless you do the actual I guess you could call it lab work unless you actually confirm what it is that we're talking about it. There's no point to our. Are getting together we're we're not interested in having more thoughts. We're interested in understanding something of the nature of this dissatisfaction that all human beings feel. Let me read the key lesson. The topic is life can't be any newer than we are willing to be. The solution to our dissatisfaction with life is unimaginable. Because there's only one way beyond it. We must stop imagining. That if we just keep reliving the same old hopes and dreams, walking the same old lines through time, then somehow by some miracle. We'll step into a new life. Just to punctuate that. What do you what do you think? Is this dissatisfaction that we all feel? Maybe some of us only once in a while, but it's certainly like a bad penny returns and God willing. And I know that sounds funny. That our dissatisfaction with our life as it has been given to us, meaning as we give it to ourselves. Should begin to prove itself. And and even that in a way I call it divine dissatisfaction. What a mystery that is. How can I be dissatisfied with my life? At one level, and this is a kind of a series of gauntlets that one goes through. We think, well, it's easy to be dissatisfied with our life because I don't have what I want in order to be free. In order to be new in order to have what it is, I imagine I need to be a whole complete human being. But God willing, you've begun at least to see past some of that childishness. And realized.