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truth is your level of consciousness to decrease it mingle with the world, to increase it spend time going in not going out

we are given a few breaths here ... did we incarnate in this body to spill our life seed like a monkey? ... are we satisfied to die tonight? as for me i give my all in putting in a good shift today and then if my dream ends i am more than happy with game over

happiness isn't getting what you love but loving what you get

i think it needs faith / trust ... you have to realize the kingdom the treasure the birthright is within and outside is make-believe how do you get faith? look at someone you admire and see what is working for them and emulate it

after the not this not that approach, it is realized that god can't be known god can't be experienced god can't be felt ... it is realized all that was mental trickery ... after all who would know god? even god doesn't know god, it would need to enter the world of language to explain itself ... god is way beyond mental games ... no-words no-experience no-self is the god portal

yes same, just remember that the journey of a thousand miles is completed one step at a time hang in there for existence well knows the sincerity in your heart

you have to assess another's level of consciousness ... it is probably lower than yours but how much lower ... are they a reasonable person or are they beyond hope of betterment... in the later case you better not interfere with them since you will provoke them to worse outbursts and onslaughts ... if you feel the person wants to learn and improve then i say it is within your remit to teach them a give them the medicine they need whether that be the gentle softly kind or the tough love kind ... anger is acceptable in this case since it a way of deeply communicating to another the extent of the pain you suffered from them ... this can perhaps be enough to jolt them into getting their act together family drama and conflict is a whole huge can of worms and has to do with power relationships and some inflicting abuse and trauma on others so i think i will leave that for now though i empathize greatly with the hardships you have endured and truly hope you are seeing some light in the tunnel

it is trust before truth

authenticity is risky, fakeness is easy

it is fearlessly being what the moment needs as best you are able ... you are not especially able but you can do something

the divine triune revelations are inside outside beyond or logos spirit transcendent ... start inside, the kingdom of god is within, be silent path is ... 2 to 1 to 0 to all ... false self to true self to no self to all self ... no self is the collapse of the inside outside duality

if the world does seem to touch me, my boundaries are not good enough, for example i need to stop watching so much toxic youtube

peace is nothing to do with the world, it is what i bring to the table i have no say in what goes on in the world so why would i lose my peace over it anything can happen and most likely will ... i know this ... so why would i lose my peace over it the world does not touch me, i touch the world, i either bring peace or i bring war

if you always agree or (always disagree) with people you are being inauthentic authenticity is agreeing sometimes disagreeing others and standing up for your particular point of view you are giving them a sample of the real you, the one they need at the moment, the one that may correct them from poor decisions

yes ... if people pointedly transgress or violate your boundaries, it may be righteous to take measures to demonstrate displeasure and indignation hard to think of cases where you physically retaliate but there could be scenarios, an exampe of which is the clip above you have to pick your battles carefully and also you have to weigh the likelihood of will your action bring about change in their behavior or not usually best to do nothing but on the other hand don't become the local whipping boy and yes this story is spoken of in all 4 gospels of the bible: The narrative occurs near the end of the Synoptic Gospels (at Matthew 21:12–17, Mark 11:15–19, and Luke 19:45–48) and near the start in the Gospel of John (at John 2:13–16).

their hate is needed to test how awake you are you need more work to become untouchable unflappable dispassionate empathetic when you bring awareness to the lion's den you will be indifferent to whatever malice is hurled at you indeed you will be an agent for transmuting their negativity into civility sticks and stones break my bones and words they never hurt me

certainly had to scratch and claw to dismiss the endless distractions ... world and mind don't want to go down easily our destination is the same but our path and speed need not intersect ... me i am one of life's worker bees rather than the gifted gilded elite even though i am ruthlessly laser focused on self i do look to love those i pass by day to day take a look at my timeline on twitter and reddit if you want, same username as here, i don't post but do speak to what others say

hedonism/asceticism is for a person is there a person here

for me i don't think about this work i set it in stone and do it ... if i did think about it there is no way i would be able to follow through i do listen to the body, when it was too cold this winter i stayed in bed, i know the temperature that makes the sitting unbearable, i don't negotiate with myself and say you did good this week take a day off ... no i take days off for explicit reasons ... what i know is the mind will use any trick to stop me meditating, its life is on the line, so i have to set the plan and stick to it meditation is the answer to every ill in life for me ... this is not an opinion this is my experience ... if you knew me a year ago you would agree that i am unrecognizable for me it is not self help but self halt

of myself i do nothing is the same as the buddha saying sit until you get to no self so that god can take the wheel

it is damn arduous and a not for everyone sacrifice getting up in the dark the eerie silence the cold every morning i am giving it all for what i consider the most important thing i will keep giving more and more as my body allows i seek absolutely nothing except a fantastic now

everyone acts according to their level of consciousness do you know their past their pain their parents for example? have mercy ... you are not that virtuous ... why you don't remove the log in your own eye before you criticize the splinter in mine everyone has the same destiny and everyone is taking a different route to get there your route is not their route and your speed is not their speed

put in a life time's effort in one day and see if god gives one more

utter exhaustion ... you went to the max... you survived you thrived ... what didn't kill you will build you ... you did god proud and will be recompensed as a good and faithful child ... to him who gives much to him much will be given ... this is the well lived life and the only sound night's sleep

welcome ... contemplate that there can never be one like you, you bring the best thing ever to the table, no one will ever unleash the riches you alone produce