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Truth is what has happened. Love is accepting truth. Accept yourself.

Accept the past. Appreciate and act in the present. Resistance is a mindset, not an action. An unproductive mindset, that limits your present actions. Choose love instead.

Intentions create value. Resisting the past is futile. It has already happened! Resisting it will not change it, and it most definitely will not create any value.

Money is nothing but a store of human value. Of effort. Production. Utilize the newfound energy and focus to create value aka money.

Happiness. Forgiveness. Energy. Focus. “The past has no power over the present moment.” ― Eckhart Tolle Unless of-course, when you resist it.

And your judgement too.

I accept my attachment.

What is the point of resisting what has already happened, aka the truth? Focus that energy instead on your intentions.

It matters to me. Thank you for the opportunity to practice love.

Welcome Rolo. I meant accepting that someone else has a different point of view. Or to be more precise, something that was presented as an opposing point of view, for whatever reason. And who can argue that love is? Everything is.

I accept your perspective.

Once, on being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, “The coming of the kingdom of God is not something that can be observed, nor will people say, ‘Here it is,’ or ‘There it is,’ because the kingdom of God is in your midst.” - Luke 17:20-21 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,” even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you. - Psalm 139:7-12 If your all are truly seeking spiritual growth and love, drop all that hate and ignorance for one of humanities most enduring spiritual books, along with the Vedas and the Sutras. It has some more deep wisdom, for those willing to go beyond surface, simplistic interpretations.

@Red-White-Light Do you know much about the biblical God? Here are a few quotes from the the bible about God: God is Spirit - John 4:24 God exists everywhere - Psalm 139:7-12 God knows everything - Psalm 147:5 God is infinite - 1 Timothy 1:17 God is unchanging - Malachi 3:6, Numbers 23:19 God is all powerful - Ephesians 1:18-23 God has no beginning or end. He just exists - John 17:5 God is always present and knows no boundaries - Jeremiah 23:23-24 God cannot be fully understood by man - Job 36:26 This does not sound like personification to me!

@Jed Vassallo I think I get what you're trying to say, allow me to rephrase: Awakening is about gaining knowledge, a new perspective on life. You realize that this life is not the end-be-all of your existence, and every thing is alright, because one day you will awaken from it like a dream. Row, row, row your boat, Gently down the stream, merrily merrily merrily merrily, life is but a dream. Hakuna matatata! The words of the Teacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem: "Meaningless! Meaningless!" says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless. - Ecclesiastes 1:1-4 I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind. - Ecclesiastes 1:14

@Jed Vassallo "Only when you wake from the dream can you understand that it was all meaningless, just an experience you dreamt up to experience." "Existence is both meaningless and infinitely meaningful. There is no meaning to nothingness, yet there is meaning because you God created it. " So if it is both meaningless and infinitely meaningful, why does awakening only bring about the understanding of the meaninglessness of life? Don't we already find life meaningless or meaningful in our non-awakened states? Or to put it another way, isn't meaning just another mental construct?

Your white blood cells don't torture and kill foreign invaders. Fighting, killing, eating, being eaten is the nature of our world. Boxing, like all sports, is just a pastime that reflects that reality. Even animals play fight.

So I wake from the dream, but at the same time still continue dreaming? Also, why was it meaningless? What then, is meaningful?

Strong people still need to sleep, don't they? And who is there to protect them then? I think morality is more about getting along.. human beings weren't built to live alone, regardless of how strong or smart a particular individual is.

We do not need rules, we have them. You are free to break them any time you feel like, just realize that there will be consequences. Rules are just there as guidelines to keep you alive as a member of a deeply social species. You can also always run off into the mountains and live by yourself with no rules.

You know the saying "so and so has issues". Or "he has daddy issues". We all have emotional and mental issues of some sort, that prevent us from growing, being our best selves and finding happiness. These issues are caused by early childhood event that left us scared with limiting beliefs about ourselves and the world and/or repressed negative emotions. Shadow work is the process of facing up to, and resolving those issues. Emotions for example, can be resolved by fully feeling them, and then letting them go. Emotions are messages from your deeper mind, and when they are ignored, repressed or unacknowledged, they don't don't vanish into thin air. They go into hibernation (the shadow), and show up randomly from time to time waiting for that acknowledgement. An if you haven't done much shadow work then each time they surface, they just end up creating similar traumatic events, growing stronger like a snowball rolling down a hill. So shadow work involves a lot of allowing yourself to feel all that pain, revisiting those childhood events as a more developed adult and re-interpreting them, which can break the hold of those very stubborn, deeply ingrained limiting beliefs.

Smart man.

cells (e.g red blood cells) the living organism (e.g Leo) the family (e.g baby and mama shark) the group (e.g village, team, country) the species (e.g human beings, cows) kingdoms (e.g animal kingdom, plant kingdom) all living organisms all things (e.g something, nothing) ?? So, if utilitarianism does not work on level two because ego, what about on higher levels above the living organisms ego?

My lifelong concept of nothing? Just empty space. Like if you moved the chair to another room, there is now nothing where that chair was. Until I learnt about air, then all that white space became actually filled with this invisible air, and for awhile, there was no nothing. Then I learnt about outer space, and that it does not contain air like earth does, and that became the new standard for nothing - the empty space between planets and stars. And now that science is talking about dark matter, that what they thought was empty space in an atom is really "dark matter" and they cant really explain it, and once again... they're taking away my nothing. I give up! Why should there be something? Aka where did something (all of creation come from). Asking the same question differently does unlock new possibilities in the mind, outside the usual answers and assumptions science and religion have provided. Like always taking it for granted that nothing is the more sensible state, and all these things need an explanation. And they really do... most of the answers seem so unsatisfying on some level, maybe just the limit of the (my) mind. What's the boundary of the universe? I've never really considered this.. I guess the universe is infinite? This is the big question for me, just wondering why it does not end, feels... funny. How did you as a child distinguish between nothing and something? My five senses: sight, sound, touch/feeling, taste, smell. These are intuitive knowings, the mind can't explain where it gets it from. What we learn from other humans later on are the labels to attach to these things. something + nothing = everything On the nature of reality Reality is an illusion in the sense that a solid wall is mostly just empty space. This is something a modern scientist can measure and agree with, yet the budhists from centuries ago had already experienced. Interesting, seems higher consciousness is all about perceiving more of what is there.

@VeganAwake Thanks for the clarification.