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Recorded during Kambiz Naficy’s five-day meditation retreat at Yogaville, this is a calming talk about living a simple, yet happy life.

• An enlightened life means living a simple life. Living a simple life does not mean losing the nice things you own now.
• When you love yourself, every one of your ambitions and possessions should serve your happiness and the happiness of your loved ones. Never get caught in a miserable struggle just to maintain a complicated lifestyle.
• An over-complicated life goes against self-love. Living a complicated life is a form of self-sabotage.
• Trying to fulfill your list of desires is like being lost in a great hall of mirrors!
• Your five senses are designed to want and they will never stop wanting. You have to become master of your senses and acquire things that serve your happiness.
• Breathe into your heart; access the Truth of your heart. In your heart, you will discover your needs and what is truly important, instead of desires for quick gratification.
• Your needs constitute what is truly in your life. Needs are elements like food, shelter, good health, procreation, adequate wealth, love, peace of mind, a meaningful life-purpose, and a connection with a Higher Force.
• In our human life, we experience the two basic emotions of love and fear. Fear arises from the ego and five senses, with their endless list of wants. Love arises from our heart and Soul, and the when we follow love, we seek what is truly important to our happiness.
• Meditate on your breath-movement and quiet your mind. A quiet, focused mind will simplify your life. A busy, beehive mind, will create lots of nervous knee-jerk reactions and complications.
• Find out what your natural talents are, what you have always been interested in. What you are passionate about? Follow your life-purpose, show up at that meaningful job every day, and your life will become happy and simple!