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Now, in our culture, we've been trained for individual differences to stand out.

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So, you look at each person and immediately it is:

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brighter, dumber, older, younger, richer, poorer.

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and we make all these dimensional distinctions,

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put them in categories and treat them that way.

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And we get so that we only see others as separate from ourselves

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in the ways in which they're separate.

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And one of the dramatic characteristics of experience

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is being with another person and suddenly seeing the ways

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in which they are like you, and not different from you,

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and experiencing the fact - that which is essence in you,

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which is essence in me, is indeed one

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the understanding that there is no other.

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It is all one.

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So I was just born as a human being

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and then I learned this whole business of who I am,

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and whether I'm good or bad

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or achieving or not, all that's learned along the way.

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And all I could see were the problems,

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and the fears of society,

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but none of the potential, none of the positive questions about:

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"What is man to do next?", they're not even interested in that.

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They are so committed to the fact that

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this society is the way it is and that's all that you can expect,

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and that's what I call vested interest in the ongoing game,

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and if you have vested interest in the ongoing game,

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you are frightened by anything that might change it.

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Look, we now know that there is enough to go around, alright?

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In other words, if we could truly collaborate with our fellow man,

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there would be enough to go around for the world.

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But none of us can break through our own models

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of the way the game goes

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enough to do the things necessary to bring about that realization.

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And it's only when there is enough that we can become back to "we",

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both of us the subject, and experience the unity

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when we are truly collaborative about our resources.

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Man has come out of the jungle where there wasn't enough

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and where he fought for it, and he built a whole ethic around not having enough.

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And now to be able to really shift that ethic is a very...

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you know, in the whole motivational pattern connected with it,

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it is a very difficult thing for them to do.

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The choice lies with you. We have the brains,

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the know-how, the technology,

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and the feasibility, to build an entirely new civilization.

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