Tamir's metaphor. One side of a vault has an intricate lock that could take 20 years of cryptography to crack, while the other side stands wide open. We fiddle with the code because that makes the treasure (love, gratitude, presence) feel earned. Ian closes the episode with 'the vault is open'.
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For some of us, it's difficult to just go from feeling into the vault. We have to think our way into it. And that's really where we stumble.
- We distrust answers that seem too easy
Returning to the self can feel suspiciously easy, so we invent mountains to summit or demand total destruction before rebirth. We pick the 20-year lock over the open door because effort…