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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

what does god do? god gives god receives give is what it did receive is what it will do so enjoy the cat videos as long as you please you might get the idea you can give back only what you publish in black or white outlives your life even cat videos can feature on your tombstone

alysssa, you don't need to try to understand me that will always cause you agony and tie you in knots, i was speaking purely generically above to try to make you see there is a pattern in such behavior but it is nothing that you can do anything about you just need to do you and steer clear of anything that is not for you

i notice my haters spend more time analyzing me checking me and dissecting me than my lovers truly devoted individuals, i salute them

david hawkins says it takes single-minded persistence dedication and devotion to reach the goal and i agree ... no one can really help you in this journey ... you just have to give your entire life to it ... and osho says that everyone's enlightenment is different, the universe will make no carbon copys

that's not competition that's actualization and yes in truth the only person you should compare yourself to is who you were yesterday have i done something today towards my goal of actualization? then yes i am better than i was yesterday

ignore me block me exclude me but you have no right to judge me have you encountered my past my pain my parents if you think i have bad intentions today, you should see how bad i was yesterday i am a work in progress towards perfect just like you are you can't see how everything i do is pure love because you are comparing me to you and your development and your journey i seem bad to you but i am on the same road to becoming god just like you are

am going through the same, bless you @Godishere

in case anyone didn't see ... leo sneakily released a part two of this episode on his blog https://www.actualized.org/insights/extra-insights-about-good-intentions furthermore, there is a summary of this blog episode in the Actualized forum

ego is a tool, my only means to reach you i can wield ego, any which way as long as my use of it, shows you the way

you are selfish to the exact degree you need to survive jeff bezos needs not be selfish at all while if you are starving and think this can be your last day here you will kill me in order to last another day

god has turned down its knob to make itself sufficiently un-self-aware so it can't even recognize itself for one second in the mirror all so it can enjoy some wild crazy fun adventures all incognito and with a perfectly level playing field, since won't be fair if i know i'm god and you stay blissfully ignorant enjoy!

be you to full is the only beautiful

yes precisely

i say it's more problematic and best ignored ... our ego is always seeking inflation from those we wrongly consider our betters

apologies for being so pedantic, what do you expect from a mad english teacher ... you did great with the above