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💬 Quote of the Week

When we stay small and play small, it’s all too easy to feel toxified (yes, I just coined that word) by the unsavory behaviors swirling around us.

Picture this: a single drop of red dye falls into a thimble full of clear water. Instantly, the water is overtaken—dark pink, maybe even red.

Now, imagine dropping that same bit of dye into an Olympic-sized swimming pool filled with clear, pristine water. What happens? Virtually nothing. The pool remains as crystalline as before—too vast for a single drop to matter.

This is exactly what Thom speaks of. When we expand our consciousness, we become so spacious, so boundless, that the toxicity around us no longer takes hold.

Curious? Keep reading below.

📚 Book Recommendation: Creating Affluence

One of my all-time favorite book recs—whether you’re a die-hard Vedic Meditator or just Vedic-curious—is a short-but-mighty gem called Creating Affluence: The A-Z Steps to a Richer Life.

Creating Affluence is a collection of direct cognitions by my teacher’s teacher, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and transcribed and published by one of his devotees, Deepak Chopra.

This isn’t just another self-help book. Creating Affluence is a collection of straight-from-the-source wisdom by my teacher’s teacher, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, transcribed by one of his students, Deepak Chopra. It’s like a cheat sheet for understanding how happiness and abundance are already baked into the fabric of the Universe—and into you.

The book starts off with a banger:

“A stands for all possibilities, absolute, authority, affluence, and abundance. The true nature of our ground state and that of the universe is that it is a field of all possibilities. In our most primordial form, we are a field of all possibilities. From this level it is possible to create anything. This field is our own essential nature. It is our inner self. It is also called the absolute, and it is the ultimate authority. It is intrinsically affluent because it gives rise to the infinite diversity and abundance of the universe.”
– Deepak Chopra (via Maharishi Mahesh Yogi)

Talk about starting strong.

A daily practice of Vedic Meditation takes these lofty, philosophical ideas and turns them into your truth, your reality—your direct experience of life.

With a less stressed nervous system and regular contact with the inner field of all possibilities, meditation becomes the gateway to 24/7 affluence consciousness. And when you start triggering systematic, repeatable experiences of Universal Consciousness, limitless abundance doesn’t just happen occasionally—it becomes your new baseline.

💫 The Vedic Spin: Playing Big By Building Perspective

Let’s play a game of perspective, shall we? (Grabs cosmic goggles and hands you a pair) 🥽✨

Picture the Universe—THE Universe. Housing every single planet, solar system, and galaxy our minds can barely begin to fathom.
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Let’s sprinkle in a fun fact to help: if the Milky Way Galaxy were the size of the continental United States, Earth would be smaller than a single grain of sand. Let that sink in.

AND, scientists estimate there are two trillion Milky Way-like galaxies in the known Universe.

With that perspective in mind, here’s the trillion-galaxy question: Would this infinite, all-knowing Universe ever get its feelings hurt by earthly drama? Would it curl up in a sad little corner over what Chad said in that meeting?

(Waits for rhetorical dust to settle.)

And if your inner skeptic is whispering, “Yeah, sure, that’s the Universe, but what about me? Don’t I get to feel my hurtipoos?”—let’s park that question for a moment and zoom in on the first point.

Who are you, really? Just a tiny human—one grain of sand among a gazillion grains—occasionally tapping into Universal consciousness during groovy meditation sessions?

(Waits for rhetorical dust to settle. Again.)

You. ARE. Universe.

At your core, you are Totality itself—Aham Brahmasmi—whether you’re changing diapers, stuck on a Zoom call, or trying to figure out how to return the 27 Black Friday deals you definitely didn’t need.

Twice-daily Vedic Meditation creates the conditions for you to remember this truth, until it becomes the unshakable foundation of who you are. You don’t forget. You don’t fall back. It becomes the fabric of your being.

Back to the second question: Does realizing your Universal nature mean you stop being human? Do you float off into some patchouli-scented, tie-dye-wearing hippie commune where they chant “if it’s yellow, let it mellow”?

Far from it.

Rather, we feel expansive—vast in our thinking, our actions, and the way we connect with the world and the people around us. We embrace the full spectrum of being human—the elation, yes, but also the not-so-fun-in-the-moment growing pains of change and evolution. And through it all, we hold the big perspective.

When we embody our Universal nature, we’re not bogged down by “hurtipoos” or weighed down by negativity or toxicity. Instead, we become more dynamic. More effective. More kind, generous, and yes—happier.

“You are not a drop in the ocean; you are the entire ocean in a drop.”
– Rumi

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So go on with your bad self, fearless one. Power your actions with the Oceanhood of your true essence. You’re not just in the flow—you are the flow. You are the ENTIRE ocean in a drop.