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this is sweet and very deep ... how practically did you do this for any day say during the month of august

congrats good stuff, i hang out with the homeless few times a week and this help me with my ice breaking skills, still need to work on it much more specially to be more spontaneous

i call strangers new people do you talk to new people every day? every week? this would be exceptionally challenging for me though i do manage it once in a while

mine i try to reflect on the word love as much as i can, what concrete acts of love did i carry out ... even to call my parents is a good day for me

we have much in common may i ask how you developed a calling for cemeteries, alcoholics and self realization ... this is very fascinating to me ... did you have a role model

love this have you lived such a day? how will you survive if you do this all the time?

god in fact stole all our adjectives the mean guy that it is lol no good bad up down in out beautiful ugly ... it all just is! but for the purpose of this thread, focus on if you have to explain to another who is not so conscious what made your day good

yes good stuff i love this quote: there is no bad weather only wrong clothing

guilt is accepting a code of conduct you never signed up to then feeling bad for not meeting it because hey what if someone finds out what i'm like my behavior is love maximization on a case by case hour by hour basis irrespective of what any other says

i'll throw this into the mix until a person says no, they cannot say yes, you cannot trust their yes they are simply going along with the game to see where it leads this applies to any relationship and is not about sex FORCE a person to say no if you want things real and remember this post is not about sex after they say no, the yes is then trustworthy

god is good all the time ... worship team is fun but just beware you are getting in deeper

"ideal world" is purely abstract to me ... well do you have any skin in the game on this topic? @Nahm

didn't say a word about you, but you are speaking theoretically, i deal with this in day to day life

in ideal world yea, not when you have no power to live the life that you want to lead, then you do what you have to do to get through the day

with respect i lived this it is just like a slave leaving his master masr ain't gona let you go easy and will never stop til you back in the fold i am persecuted and penalised every day for stepping away, i am basically a second class citizen

in my case i spun some story that i now do online church that's the end of the conversation thank you covid

no you are dragged there from the time when you could not make up your own mind if you leave you become the black sheep of the family and pariah of the community, and reap the dire consequences to the point where even your basic survival is drastically impacted leaving can't be done lightly

church gets deep claws in you, it is hard to unhook bear in mind that church CAN lead to the highest truth, but it will be a most arduous journey since you will be fought every step by the powers that be and leaving it behind is damn hard

yes speaking out the truth can upend others as well as you ... there is much collateral damage involved the highest truth is not to speak truth but live it ... do everything resist nothing and be the light of the world st francis said, preach the gospel use words only where necessary

i would have a rethink about this you are being pushed front and center to being one's of the church's stars i would tell her something like, having thought about it i realize school will be too busy for me this year to take on worship team church might be okay for socializing and maybe even getting a handle on the bible but overall it is going to hold you back in your spiritual journey if you want some good christian stuff that would tie in with leo check out bishop john shelby sprong, how he reformulates what the gospels truly mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Shelby_Spong

there is realizing this and real eyes in this be the i behind the e-yes! "Realization is but the opposite of ignorance. To take the world as real and one's Self as unreal is ignorance, the cause of sorrow. To know the Self as the only Reality and all else as temporal and transient is freedom, peace and joy. It is all very simple. Instead of seeing things as imagined, learn to see them as they are. When you can see everything as it is, you will also see your Self as you are. It is like cleansing a mirror. The same mirror that shows you the world as it is, will also show you your own face. The thought "I am" is the polishing cloth. Use it. Devotion to your goal makes you live a clean and orderly life, given to the search for Truth and to helping people, and realization makes noble virtue easy and spontaneous, by removing for good the obstacles in the shape of desires and fears and wrong ideas. The entire purpose of a clean and well-ordered life is to liberate man from the thaldrom of chaos and the burden of sorrow. In reality, only the Ultimate is. The rest is a matter of name and form. And as long as you cling to the idea that only what has name and shape exists, the Supreme will appear to you non-existing. All will happen as you want it, provided you really want it." - Nisargadatta

mostly people only need a word or three to put them on track to disagree with someone is the simplest thing in the world, you state the apparent error and move on the wise rarely get drawn into arguments ... all arguing is stupid leo seems highly cleansed of ego -- bravo for that i learn a ton from his presence here

written words are tricky, have nuance and layers and personal history ... best is use them as sparingly as possible ... if unsure, fire back a pointed question to the other person like, 'is your meaning here positive' or 'can you explain what you mean by x'

renunciation is spiritual ego this world is terrible despicable toxic ... i must keep myself uncontaminated ... i will stay fixed on god and not let the world corrupt me detachment is healthy ego the world is basically me ... i need to embrace and love myself ... everyone is part of me disattached needing reatatchment, my long lost limb second part of your question: if someone shows seeks speaks spiritual it's fake if someone shows peace joy wonder love silence ... he got it

you are allowing random things you have no control over to effect your state of mind and therefore quality of life