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T O  I N N E R  T R U T H

by

Michel Thibault

     Q: WHY “THE LOVE SEED”?

Michel: To testify that there is no fatality to suffering. Realizing who we are, in the Heart is the end of suffering, the end of an internal war with reality.

     Q: HOW DID YOU FIND AN ANSWER FOR YOURSELF?

Michel: The paradox of not knowing for certain who I was anymore was to bring  answers I could not see while I kept pretending I knew.

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    Q: WHAT IS THE MOST CHERISHED MEMORY YOU HAD TO OVERCOME?

Michel: The certainty of suffering. Identifying with suffering would close ranks around painful stories, denying Love’s presence in this very moment. It was a lie. And I had to find out for myself, one thought at a time.

     Q: ARE YOU A TEACHER OF LOVE?

Michel: No. You are the only one who can teach yourself. I noticed for myself that all love-relationships end by death, separation or fading memory. So, I started questioning the assumption that love depended on people, who appear to disappear, to exist. I wanted proofs and no romanticised imagery. And I engage you to do the same, if you are open to it.

    Q: WHAT WAS YOUR BREAK THROUGH?

Michel: That love does not need my story or anybody’s story, in order to Be. It does not need yours either. Love is causeless, neither mine nor yours. Regardless of common beliefs, we cannot share love... Because Love is what we are, no more and no less. Walking ourselves to this realization is what “The Love Seed” is about.

     Q: WHAT BROUGHT YOU TO THE PATH?

Michel: In my thirties, everything I was identifying as part of who I am started collapsing: family, friendships, relationship, financial stability, career, certainties about the world, about knowing, about religion, and about cultural associations. This left me naked and ready to walk the path of inner truth.

     Q: HOW DID YOU TRANSCEND PAINFUL MEMORIES?

Michel: Through self-inquiry, the memory of pleasurable moments or painful memories, which I used to call “the story of my life,” slowly vanished. Like an old tape recording of the mind, the story was playing itself only as long as it had a listener. When the listener disappeared, painful memories also did. Indeed, the living has no story.

     Q: IS THIS WHAT YOU ARE SHARING THROUGH THE BOOK?

Michel: Yes. Walking the path of inner truth, it became clear that I was all I wanted to be. The truth of the Heart was that simple. In this realization, all traces of past suffering would erase like a bad dream. When this was fully realized, I fell prompted to testifying that suffering is not a fatality, but a state of believing one’s thoughts.

     Q: IS IT WHAT PEOPLE CALL AWAKENING?

Michel: Awakening is not assuming a new identity. It is What Is when who you are is no longer relative to what you are not.

     Q: WHAT DO YOU EXPERIENCE UPON AWAKENING?

Michel: Love and freedom, neither mine nor yours.

     Q: COULD YOU TELL US ABOUT YOUR PERSONAL STORY?

Michel: If you question the truth about your own “personal story,” you will find out that I cannot answer your question. Of course, I could tell you for the record, that I was born near Paris, France, that I have a business degree, worked for years in a trade show company before moving to the US where I started a business. I could tell you that I can play music, speak languages, the places I travelled to, the name of my teachers or the books I have read... If you believe this, it becomes your story about me. But this says nothing about who I am.

     Q: THEN, HOW CAN WE KNOW YOU?

Michel: The only place where we can truly meet and know each other is in the Heart. Find your Heart. I will meet you there.