We’re not really free until we are no longer attached to the non-dual, as opposed to the dual. To be free, relaxed, responsive, attentive, and full of love for this life, this world, and this moment, we have to come to see that the dual and the nondual are in fact one, and always have been.
In fact, the real project of “awakening” to the non-dual has been some kind of a set-up – a joke almost. Or at least, a clever trick to bring us through a change of heart and mind that is so natural, so easy, and in some sense inescapable anyway.