Vishen Lakhiani argues that embracing human desires—sex, fame, money, and power—is a valid and important part of spiritual life. He cites Neale Donald Walsch (Conversations with God) and urges listeners to reject religious dogma that shames these pursuits, emphasizing using influence and resources to uplift others while recognizing the oneness of all people.
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Don't waste your human life trying to unravel all the secrets of the universe. You're gonna understand that when you die, because death isn't the end of it. Spend this life truly embracing being human. Neil Donald Walsh, who wrote the incredible series of books Conversations with God, said, seek sex, seek fame, seek money, seek power. Seek all of these beautiful aspects of humanity and stop judging them. Sex is one of the most wonderful aspects of life. Money is glorious. Power is beautiful because you have influence. Seek all of these things that priests and religious leaders have told us to shun because they wanted to control us. Seek thought, but seek these with the understand that you and everyone else around you is one, so you would never hurt another person. But with your power, with your attractiveness, with your money, with your fame, you can uplift as many people as possible. Go out there and seek it. You don't have to be a monk, you don't have to go on a 12 day silent retreat. Embrace being human. We are all one and that so much of what restricts us and holds us are dogma from the past. To be spiritual is to truly be liberated. The people who tell you what you're doing is not right, you're not being faithful to your religion or your culture are simply saying, look at me, I have bigger chains than you.