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God lets his kids dream to see how silly it is electing to flee his presence. You're good at making up universes but still mad for doing so. Where there is pain, God isn't. Thank pain for showing you that you messed up and will now do better.

Poverty is having to rub shoulders with one's fellow mankind. Riches is to buy a bigger wall. Other people are the only way to wake up. Before enlightenment poverty. After enlightenment, riches. Seek first the kingdom and this will be given you. Namely when you wake up, you can live the good life.

Fear is prominent in awakening. No ego wants to wake up or allows itself to if it is permitted any say. It's utterly frightening to be absent ego. To last in the world will be difficult. Because everything is same. To not eat is just as cool as to eat. To sleep as not to sleep. You literally have to force yourself to maintain this bag of bones. Why bother, right? You bother because your Godself may have something up its sleeve. Someone could need a hand.

The FT is Europe's Wall Street Journal. It doesn't just report the news it establishes it. It's required reading for anyone handling money. Economist is stellar too and has better depth and authority than any other weekly. Though it became more for gossip than truth, Both alas have seen their best days and are dying slow but certain deaths.

Happiness in the world is to occupy oneself dutifully. On your death bed you will be applauded by all for a well lived life. Wanting more than this is suffering. Having less than this is suffering. What more do you want! What the heck has a spirituality forum ever given you except an endless headache!

So go ahead choose day then.

Seeking happiness is a form of ignorance. You think you are lacking, something is wrong with your life, but your own simple beingness needs nothing, it is completely at ease and content as is. Get to know it, relax. ~ Nisargadatta

Bad for me or bad for you? Neither caused me to take a sick day yet. Is that bad?

It depends. Once the human starts to live for 10,000 years, which isn't far off, there won't be much difference between god and me.

It's good to have a plan B like when chat-gpt was down worldwide a few weeks back. So then pull out Claude or Deepseek. For the most part though, chat-gpt is the gold standard. It gets better each month.

Jesus is just the shortened Je suis, I am, That, I am. It's not a french perfume brand. The man Jesus was the awakened I am as the name infers. Christianity is an optional extra.

Sacrifice is unabashed ego. I scratch your back and you scratch mine. God can't know sacrifice. God is a giver not a taker, a lover not a fighter. When you wake up, you realize there are no people to be awoken. You are doing everything for your own benefit. And everything that happens to you, you asked for. The script is written and the question is, how soon do you want to get out of here. You get out of here by not letting ego have any say in what happens. That is what will prolong your stay namely your misery.

Seek ye first the kingdom and all the rest will be added unto you. Spirituality is radical but it also admonishes you to be normal. Blend in and don't make a song and dance of all this. So actually you can have your cake and eat it too. If you are not happier your spirituality is misguided. God is happy and doesn't put a foot wrong.

Torture is the assertion I can break you short of killing you. Namely you are the 99% that has a breaking point and will do my will. Torture for torturing's sake is sadism and that's a different discussion.

What I say goes buddy.

There is pain or God but not both. Choose well. To think God knows of pain is ego's best yarn.

There are two ways to love. You will benefit by what I give because you don't have. That's the ego's way. The better way is when I affirm that you are everything and you have everything. I don't do this in words but through thoughts else you will think I'm unhinged. To bask in the fullness and wonderment of another's being is true love. Doing this joins our minds in perfect oneness. Holding onto such thoughts heals the energetic pathways between us. I graft your mind to mine. Whether or how you have the grace to experience this too isn't up to me. The healed one's physical presence seems to help the other's receptivity. Words and actions may hinder rather than help.

Emotions are good since they tell you when ego is running the show, It's my cue to choose again. My companion to awakening. Whether for example I feel mercy or vengeance, I am perpetuating illusions.

Kindness and meanness are the same thing - healing to destroy. You are keeping them stuck. Which keeps you stuck. Truth is healing to save. You can't handle the truth, is a good meme but also a destructive lie.

The goal of meditation is that I see you as perfect. Because you are. Running to a cave precludes this. I become perfect when I restore perfection to you. You being perfect has nothing to do with what you do or how you look.

Effort entrenches the false reality and keeps oneself believing in it. It must be true, right? Look I am getting somewhere. I am someone and special. The effort needed is to withdraw effort. This returns one to square one and now good stuff can happen because I am not doing it.

My take is, you need a good idea of the goal. Pre meditation, you have one thought system. When you begin, you have 2 running simultaneously and concurrently. Most thoughts are egoic and some thoughts reflect truth. Post meditation, you have rewired yourself to have one thought system again, the right one. This is the default and is liberation. This thought system paves the way for a smooth exit out of here. Namely drop the body and be what you always are. Meditation is good since it expedites this. Some may not be willing while others may give it a go and succeed. For me I just have to focus on me.

Only murder happens by me and only miracles happen through me. "Who with the love of God upholding him can find the choice of murder or miracles hard to make." ~ACIM

You have the key to your prison. You are the jail-keeper. Body dies. Body is nothing.

I don't need friends. I can do the needful better alone. I do want friends since it's a delight to share my bounty and boundaries. Friends then are precious because I beckon them on my terms out of having made something of nothing. They are intentional not incidental, indispensable not inconsequential.