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@tsuki Ok don't compromise your families financial situation then if you aren't stable. Be careful. You can get happiness without making huge changes in your life. I am also currently not happy but I have a different context then you. Happiness is a choice. We are the only reason we are unhappy. Our outside life means nothing. I know it doesn't seem like that right now from your POV. But is the truth of our reality. The longer we deny this truth the more we will suffer. Have you talked to @Nahm about happiness before? He can give you great advice. Listen to Rupert Spira and Abraham Hicks for happiness. This talk is legit.

@Derek White I can silence the mind for moments, but I still face resistance and get dragged back into thinking and procrastination. But isn't the first step changing thinking? Can i run before I walk here and just detach from thinking altogether. Feels like it might be too much

@Anderz That's wild. I honestly felt some panic with my ego when you said that about NPC's. This work is too crazy sometimes lol

@Derek White I will read long replies about this specific topic. I'm going to do a long meditation session like 3 or 4 hours based on advice from another post here who posts about happiness in meditation. I can observe thinking, i have a decent amount of mindfulness. i've made big improvement with my quality of life with changing thinking patterns in the past so I know it's possible and I liked the higher state i got too. I understand ultimately I will transcend these kinds of questions but i'm not there yet. Right now i just really want to find genuine, lasting happiness in my life because I feel like i'm missing it. And changing thinking seems like the most practical thing I can do right now based on where i'm at.

Haha i'm too scared to try DMT too! I have done LSD a few times and it's not too crazy at all. I think you could handle a low dose LSD trip. I think i'm going to start with LSD and then work my way up to DMT.

@tsuki What is your financial situation? Are you completely dependent on this job? It seems like you're in a toxic situation and it's really tough to change people man. You can't expect people will change even if there problems are obvious and you are really trying to help them. All we can really do is help ourselves and help people who want to be helped.

Have you thought about trying DMT so you know what you're going for? It could be useful to your practice if you get a taste of what you're actually going for.

I understand. I am also going for a Holy Relationship too, and I don't have one yet so it's tough for me to honestly say that personal development work has really benefited me.

On a scale of 1-10 how you rate the quality of your life before and after doing ACIM?

@Arcangelo Okay keep it up (:

@Raphael So the moment you wake up you just begin meditating? Do you go to the washroom or like go on your phone or something first? How much of a difference do you think it makes that you start meditating the moment you start your day.

@Arcangelo Do you enjoy the process? I honestly think there are better more efficient and healthier ways to feel alive rather than doing pickup. But if you feel it is helping then I can't say otherwise.

Why are you so into pick up arc?

@Leo Gura What about the stage blue jesus freaks? Is it just preaching dogma without experience?

@Leo Gura Do you think there are people in stage orange or stage green who are happier, more loving, and just enjoy their lives more than people who are yellow or turquoise? If someone is genuinely happy and fulfilled at orange, why would they ever feel the need to change and progress to higher stages?

@dimitri Very cool. This sounds like the right book for me right now. Thanks for sharing

@The Don Were you unhappy before practicing gratitude and then you became happy after doing it? Or were you happy first and then you start practicing gratitude and then you became happier?

@dimitri What is the book about?

Has anyone lived in those commune's like you see in Mooji's talk. Do the people there make great spiritual progress because they are in such close proximity to a high consciousness person like Moojiji. Or are the negative consequences of just abandoning your life still greater because at some point these people will probably go back to their lives prior to attending the commune? Thoughts?

@ardacigin Which book should i read first? Leigh's book or TMI?

@ardacigin Can you link some of the happiness jhana practice from Leigh Brasington

@herghly Why are you meditating for 45 minutes in the morning?

@Buba If you are using meditation as a way to cure your unhappiness then listen to this guy's post. I am like you. I used meditation to seek happiness and joy because I was unsatisfied with life. I am at a point where i'm seeking enlightenment but I don't even get joy and happiness from meditation. I would have been much wiser to do something like this from the star, but I didn't know you could systematically create happiness like this from meditation. @ardacigin Should i do a long 3 or 4 hour single sit first and see if my state changes significantly before i buy The Mind Illuminated. and try to do the happiness practices there?

@zeroISinfinity I haven't felt the love yet. I feel like i understand all this stuff intellectually but my direct experience isn't anything like you describe yours. Also, i was reading your rold journal about not helping bliss chasers and people pursuing enlightenment for egoic reasons. because they will cause suffering if they don't fully understand god. These people, like me, will cause WAY MORE suffering without enlightenment. Bliss chaser, prisoner, it doesn't matter who. Enlightenment is the best case for me, you, and everyone and everything. There are no reasons to not help someone pursue enlightenment. But i do get your point about you can't do it from egoic reasons. If I want to be enlightened for my own sake and my own desires I think it's going to take a lot long then if i find a different motivation.

@SoonHei Why would god create separation in the first place? If god is infinite love then why not just create a system where you fulfill loves purpose without causing the unnecessary suffering of the human experience?