HOW DID YOU FIND AN ANSWER FOR YOURSELF?

Michel: The paradox of not knowing for certain who I was anymore was to bring me the answers I could not see as long as I would pretend to know.

IS THIS WHAT YOU ARE SHARING THROUGH THE BOOK?

Michel: Yes. Walking the path of inner truth, I slowly realized 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 realized, I fell prompted to testifying that suffering is not a fatality, but a state of believing one’s thoughts.

IS IT WHAT PEOPLE CALL AWAKENING?

Michel: Awakening is not assuming a new identity. It is the Reality prevailing when who you are is not relative to what you are not.

AND WHAT DOES AWAKENING LOOK LIKE OR FEEL LIKE?

Michel: Love and freedom, neither mine nor yours.

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.

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.

WHAT BROUGHT YOU TO WRITE  “THE LOVE SEED”?

Michel: Writing the “The Love Seed,” was wrinting the book about Love that I truly wanted to read.

WHERE DOES THE TITLE “THE LOVE SEED” COME FROM?

Michel: From a break through. Noticing that all love-relationships end by death, separation or fading memory, I started questioning the assumption that love needed a story in order to exist. I questioned the assumption that love could appear to disappear. I wanted proofs.

WHAT IS LOVE WITHOUT OUT STORY?

Michel: It is What Is. Love is of the Source. Love is the Source. I call it “The Love Seed.” In other words, finding Love is no different from realizing who you are.

WHAT BROUGHT YOU TO THIS REALIZATION?

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.

IS “THE LOVE SEED” AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL?

Michel: What book is not? The Love Seed was born as I noticed that my story of pleasurable moments or painful memories was dead already. And what was truly alive was calling for attention.

WHAT IS THE MOST CHERISHED MEMORY 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 find out for myself, one thought at a time.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Michel Thibault