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you like who you're like ... likewise in life you'll try to help those who you understand which is those like you ... don't spread yourself thinly, you are not for everyone, do what you know, pick what you know, love what you know

power is the chips you have at your disposal to make others do as you say can be money, fame, reputation, blood, degrees, looks ... it is how you manipulate this life to your benefit assuming that you want to of course note well, power is about others, control is about you, big difference

self mastery is becoming magnetic infectious charismatic magnificent but that isn't why you do it however because you care not a jot about others they will come running in their droves ... what this person has is what i want and you will be delighted to share your intoxicating fragrance generously joyfully abundantly there isn't anything else to do

yea your odds pretty good but goods pretty odd tbf

love is change, is god's constant shape-shifting the one this is what god does change, is god moving, which means,, form is decaying decay seems bad but this is self bias it is changing into new form consciousness is always increasing just as evolution ever ongoing sometimes it moves one step back two steps forward love, in short, is unconsciousness becoming consciousness this is god's will

yea as i see it there's 4 choices: god speaks to god, god speaks to ego, ego speaks to god, or ego speaks to ego god speaks to god is silence god speaks to ego, again no words ... do you need words to tell your arm to type? ego speaks to god ... can ego explain something to god? ego speaks to ego ... one looks to improve the other ... imagining that the other is not already perfect and not on its own unique path to godness speak and act only if asked to is sage advice ... the rest of the time yea share a few poems

what have i done for love's sake today this week this year ever? whereby there wasn't gain for me i did what i did - solely for thee not real tough then not real love love is doing what god wants when it's not what you wants, aligning with what god wills when for itself ego won't

i would suggest first 2 or 3 dates nothing of substance takes place just speak random crazy funny spontaneous stuff doesn't even have to be true ... i mean in my case my memory is like a sieve so i have nothing stored there all you are trying to do is read the energy of each other be yourself but not the silly role you play day to day, the child like innocent impish self that's precisely what i expect from her too, heavy stuff need not apply example: so tell me, what do you do i do like a million things to be honest and that's just in the last month i joined this really far out pottery class last tuesday and do you know what the teacher told us? yadda yadda don't say what do you do then instead say what's something you enjoy doing if you have a free weekend

god just admiring itself in the mirror ??☸

beautiful is how you see god looking like or indeed goddess if you will beautiful stiops you dead in your tracks, makes time stand still, flutters your heart races your pulse, gives you the assurance that god is doing good i look to engineer beauty in my life every day by breathing in these salubrious surroundings deeply when i do so i find myself radiantly beautiful, i had that a-ha moment where i come deeply to see the meaning of be - you - to - full

nice word or two ...

want to thank you for your beautiful and patient pointers ... you have been missed around here!

how about yourself day to day, are you thinking yourself and behaving as separate or the whole thing

can one write/speak only from one's ego perspective

am confused since you answered with my ego rates itself a 10 so it seemed like you think yourself an ego and now you are saying the opposite

question was addressed to you not the ego, hopefully one day we will get beyond thinking it is us

i think we all have a spiritual ego to a degree, it is saying i know and i want to explain what i know to you a useful question to ask oneself is, how large is my spiritual ego on a 1-10 scale mine is probably like a 3 since i sometimes explain to people what i know even unbidden, this can be useful since putting words to what we know helps to solidify what we know and that's why a forum like this is useful ... i would say we need to limit ourselves in this how do you rate your spiritual ego?

the continuum from isolation to strong boundaries is a good one to contemplate, strong boundaries can keep out unhelpful energy

for a season is great, am looking forward to a 10-day vipasanna retreat the end of the month

well you are asking so cool, yea

leaving is escapism denial supression stay your triggers are your teachers in the cave you will feel spiritual but you aren't and if you leave the cave you will see so

spiritual ego is claiming stuff if i ask you then cool

the boredom excitement duality needs collapsing, if you're not excited to leap out of bed in the morning you are doing it wrong there is a whole universe that awaits inspection, all you do as god is receiveand enjoy, all the hard word setting the thing up is done

love yourself so hard, and to the exclusion of all else, that existence can't help but drop all the benefits at your feet look inside at the inimitable masterpiece you are for a couple of years and and all the outer things will be given unto you the world delivers to you exactly what you think you are worth but to change that entails massive commitment and dedication put in 1k hours of meditation and see if you plagued with self doubt

you are right, i did have a word to contribute, but the toxicity led me to try and right the ship i believe what i wrote is important to state (since you ask gist of the insight i have is that suffering is but the peeling away of this me sitting here and so is all for the good.)