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a series of lessons in raja yoga http://www.yogebooks.com/english/atkinson/1906-09rajayoga.pdf the complete mystical works of meister eckhart https://philocyclevl.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/meister-eckhart-maurice-o-c-walshe-bernard-mcginn-the-complete-mystical-works-of-meister-eckhart-the-crossroad-publishing-company-2009.pdf the attention revolution https://brookspsychology.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/b-alan-wallace-2006-the-attention-revolution-unlocking-the-power-of-the-focused-mind-223p.pdf

prerequisite to love ... only love if someone wants to be loved ... this is where religions went wrong ... don't love the unwilling, that is akin to rape love is 1. a need & 2. a want ... love is 1. come when i call (need you) & 2. call to have me come (want you) unconditional love means i take a bullet for you ... like jesus says you lay down your life ... realistically most won't love to this extent only a parent may do this for child you have only a tiny amount of energy ... love with wise discrimination ... be kind to all love well a few ... thus love needs great strategic planning who can you love though? only those who are most like you ... so 1. know you then & 2. out of every 10 people you meet, love only the one most like you love isn't active love isn't passive love is available love is willing love is flexible love is excited love changes nobody and desires to change nobody ... to me you are not perfect but for me you are just perfect love has no reason for loving the beloved ... love me for a reason and let the reason be love ~ the osmonds the extent to which one has truly loved is the only radiance on one's deathbed finally, first fix me, before any hope, of loving thee

O my God, Trinity whom I adore, help me to become utterly forgetful of myself so that I may establish myself in you, as changeless and calm as though my soul were already in eternity. Let nothing disturb my peace nor draw me forth from you, O my unchanging God, but at every moment may I penetrate more deeply into the depths of your mystery. Give peace to my soul; make it your heaven, your cherished dwelling-place and the place of your repose. Let me never leave you there alone, but keep me there, wholly attentive, wholly alert in my faith, wholly adoring and fully given up to your creative action. O my beloved Christ, crucified for love, I long to be the bride of your heart. I long to cover you with glory, to love you even unto death! Yet I sense my powerlessness and beg you to clothe me with yourself. Identify my soul with all the movements of your soul, submerge me, overwhelm me, substitute yourself for me, so that my life may become a reflection of your life. Come into me as Adorer, as Redeemer and as Saviour. O Eternal Word, utterance of my God, I want to spend my life listening to you, to become totally teachable so that I might learn all from you. Through all darkness, all emptiness, all powerlessness, I want to keep my eyes fixed on you and to remain under your great light. O my Beloved Star, so fascinate me that I may never be able to leave your radiance. O Consuming Fire, Spirit of Love, overshadow me so that the Word may be, as it were incarnate again in my soul. May I be for him a new humanity in which he can renew all his mystery. And you, O Father, bend down towards your poor little creature. Cover her with your shadow, see in her only your beloved son in whom you are well pleased. O my `Three', my All, my Beatitude, infinite Solitude, Immensity in which I lose myself, I surrender myself to you as your prey. Immerse yourself in me so that I may be immersed in you until I go to contemplate in your light the abyss of your splendour! Composed in 1904 by Elizabeth of the Trinity

self help whose opposite is self halt former grows you (and yours) latter shrinks you (and yours)

the feminine wants attention the masculine wants affection this isn't wholly true but is a pointer

work and play are one

yes maybe ... but what i mean is if as human you want the ultimate, that means you transcend the human ... human is puny limited entity taking part in a giant movie

kill time and kill space apart from the wonder of what is right now just enjoyed reading this https://www.reddit.com/r/DeepThoughts/comments/uw50md/want_to_regain_childlike_wonder/

i know i sound like a broken record, but the work for me is false self to true self to no self to all self ... all self being the all that is become zero is the prerequisite to become all namely kill the one in the mirror to realize the whole enchilada

maybe my definition of meditation may help i sit on the mat with my timer existence meanwhile does whatever it wants, whatever it needs, it chips away it chirps it chisels i have no clue what happens, i have no technique no plan no expectation i stop the timer when it beeps

could you give an example of when love is inevitable

what is loveable if not being ever excited to receive love? i allow myself to be vulnerable and spontaneous trusting that life will deliver ample goodness i am a child waiting for its dinner i carry a sublime spark of the divine in me i just need to let myself be seen for i am lovable

latest episode is the practice of love, have to practice the relative to taste the absolute otherwise the absolute is just unhelpful abstract words leo gave lots of powerful suggestions for upping one's love game

love needs consent in 2022 ... their love is nothing but an attempt to make themselves feel good ... people haven't need of fake patronizing love

so love is needed ... maybe love is the meaning of life ... even if it just loving another human

spirit is within, logos is without, transcendent is beyond

trinity is spirit within logos outside transcendent beyond

not christian carmelite contemplative mystic bernadette roberts in any case belief is for children we have to arrive at the truth

would life be worth living in a true 1-person universe ... not the you are everyone type of universe, i mean imagine for a second there are no humans in the entire universe, you are the only one who resides here ... do you want to continue your life in other words what is life if without love

neither ... god can't be a person or have people offspring ... god isn't any person period jesus is the dude who showed us the way incarnation works ... namely god is in all of us and we need to end ego to bring god to fruition confusingly we don't have to die like jesus did, we have to die to self which is precisely what he did the path jesus revealed was false self to true self to no self to all self ... all self is how god is i am being sloppy of course ... to fill in the details bernadette roberts has documented this in great detail ... all her books are online and all are free ... ive read all 8 of her books, just finished the last one on friday she doesn't just explain, she has done it ... i posted a great youtube in the resources section of this site where she powers through the whole journey in a mere 3 hours