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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.

It's a server issue. It shuts down for 15 minutes at 11.00 gmt every day for everyone.

The only health is to get out of here alive. Most of us are a few breaths away from not doing so. Who cares about adding a few days or having a happier stay. It's a stay of execution.

Yes my bad I mis-typed.

Yes. He pushed himself hard. He's a good one. Burnout is a real thing in this work. Hopefully it's a pause that refreshes. Best wishes pal.

Key for me is it be easy. This is how to sustain it. Easy is the gateway to effortless. Meditation is self care. It takes work to get there until it gets easy. Then one day you can't do without it. Even this is a trap. If you don't do it, you need to accept. When you do it, it will be even better since you are not forcing. Meditation is what keeps me authentic and grounded, the master of my destiny and the captain of my ship. Final thing: don't do anything, just sit.

Evil is seeing evil. Walk in the raper's thongs before you judge.

Special is the lowest rung of the spiritual ladder. It's what we tell children. Next is ordinary. I am nothing special. I have nothing to offer you. Highest is holy. You need me. I need you.

Key insight is that nobody seeks to make me angry. Even if someone slaps me in the face. They are doing so because they have good reason. They will do the same to anyone because they feel it is appropriate. Note well that anger isn't personal. It is another person doing what they judge they must. To meet another with anger reinforces their bad behaviour in a vicious self perpetuating circle. My anger ensures they remain stuck. We both stay sick.

Don't be overly attached. Don't make an idol of something. Be relaxed, flexible, adaptable. Shit happens, on the regular. Most important is have some discipline but enjoy life to the full. 5 days a week is enough.

Anger is a great gift to aid awakening. Reason is it's not subtle, it's a sledgehammer. You notice you got triggered. Your ego won again. You can do better. Next time you can think with a higher thought system. Anger is the stupidity of thinking you know what is wrong in the world and who should pay. Your perception is the only evil because it sees evil. Forgive yourself. It's no biggie. You heal your perception and remarkably you healed the world. Rapists still rape. But you are using the higher thought system now and are untriggered. You are good and the world along with you.

I'd say happiness is doing the will of God as opposed to the ways of man. This can be interpreted on many levels. For example obedient children are probably happier than unruly ones. Following religion likewise might make some happy. At higher levels you might say the will of God is getting out of here alive! Happiness ultimately is living from your true nature which of course is what God wants and how God made you. And again this can be thought of in a multitude of ways and will change per your consciousness level. I can likewise say happiness is self knowledge. Once you know yourself happiness cannot be assailed. You are beyond what another could do to you.

In ACIM, we say there are just 2 things - calls for love and expressions of love. Calls for love means duality and dissonance and expressions of love are oneness and harmony. How to go from former to latter? Recognise that nothing real can be hurt and everyone is the same and wants the same. It's a transmutation. You forgive people's attempts at a power grab. They are merely calling for love. You yourself see them as they are, an expression of love just like yourself.

To me that is still intermediate. You are then egoless, good. And life will be nice, good. But God is not interested in form. Sure God can dabble and dump in a heartbeat in any manner. Only oneness forever is worth a lick. This universe in fact never happened - time is illusion, body is illusion, other is illusion; so God is not perturbed by what tries to take place here. Better than here is the truth.

Not to any ego ever. The chicks are too hot and hell is too far off to give a damn.

Families are what upend the path which is why I decline. You are my family now.

Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God. -ACIM

There is reality and there is the illusion of reality. One is real, one is unreal. Question is how can the real admit the unreal when real is all. The unreal is imagined and this is illusion. The real is changeless, the unreal changeful. So what changes is illusion. The job of life is to sweep away illusions and to abide in the real. Like @Breakingthewall says, merge the perceiver and the perception. The key insight is that perception is not a fact, it is interpretation! I don't need to see illusions! I need to walk around declaring all around, unreal. This is the only mantra I need. It works.

Not denial. All kinds of evil stuff is going to take place. And sometimes I get my share. This is why one needs to expedite awakening, to get beyond all that nonsense so it doesn't make one flinch any longer. What I know is, I am doing everything to myself! These are my lessons I needed to heal myself. Illusion for me is what blocks the real. The appearance hides the essence. It beguiles me and encaptivates me and keeps me spinning my wheels so I never go within to undo it. It's a masterfully ingenious strategy, fool proof indeed but not God-proof.

You want miracles not magic. Magic is what says, man am I good or what - while miracles are what get everyone out of here alive not dead.