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There have been spiritual communities for thousands of years, I dont know about Jesus but Im sure you werent completely alone when you went through ego death, just look at the early shamanic rituals done in tribes, they knew what they were doing. I agree with the rest though.

Who can the mind deceive but itself? There is noone for it to deceive. The mind plays games with itself. “I was lost in the mind, I shouldnt be lost in the mind, Oh shoot! Im still talking, I should stop” This is all mind, but then who is watching all this happen? I dont know but the watcher cannot be deceived it can only watch. Im fairly new to this so there might be errors in my views. Says my mind. ☺️ I prefer to write in short bursts, thats just my style, I feel that if you can say something worthwhile in a one or a few sentences that’s powerful enough. It gives room for you to contemplate it itself.

As far as I can see its deceiving itself.

Who wants to quit these addictions?

I DIEEEEED???????

When I heard the learn’d astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them, When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.

Im not. Ive noticed myself snapping into mindfulness a few times a day though spontaneously, and Im always aware of negative thoughts which is wonderful. I hope to grow this mindfulness so it stays with me all day. Anyone here mindful 24/7? Do you have any tips on how to be?

Thats so cool! Guess I need more experience

@SageModeAustin Where do you draw a boundary between infinite inteliigence and lost in the mind? Isnt being lost in the mind a cosmic act too?

@Lynnel❤️Thanks

When you realize that you yourself are just as ignorant.

I read awhile ago, clear and fun read, not difficult at all, Ralston has a very charismatic style.

@SageModeAustin I wasnt denying that the universe acted out that character, it just sounded a bit fluffy when you said people around can you feel your truth.

Where does it exist? Why even bother building churches then?

So infinite intelligence was acting on Jeffrey Dahmer too? and Stalin? I agree that thought is not ours, but I doubt people around felt the truth in their answers.

20 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: 21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. no pearly gates for you my friend?

I just order a book of Rumis poetry which inspired an idea, post your favourite Rumi poems and quotes here ”Beyond ideas of right and wrongdoing theres a field, ill meet you there” ”You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens”

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For the ego to jump in and fear to take over, I was close to a realization, fear ran up my chest like a river of tiny ants. I’ll keep soldiering on.

@SoonHei Yeah, I was doing a guided meditation, slipped away from it a bit into a very focused self-inquiry and then Bam! had to open my eyes. Not the first that it has happened, but I see it as progress, theres something hiding that my ego doesnt want me to see.

You crawl up my chest like a million tiny ants. It takes the blink of an eye for you to jump in and bend up my eyelids with your lever. What do you know that I dont? What are you hiding? What are you afraid of? Next time the brickwall will crack.

How is the universe not intelligent? It created you didnt it? Matter of fact, it is creating you right now and you dont have to move a muscle.

You are the universe, its impossible to be in the universe and not be the universe, its like a piece of a cake saying “im not the cake im the piece, how stupid of you to say im the cake youre deluded”

Anyone can raise their consciousness, Enlightenment is not the same. Although they are related.

What tv-shows excite you? Why? What happens when you start to get bored? Do you feel like youre missing something in life?