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But if I don't mind him, I'll be him. See the problem? Also if we're talking about ass backwards paths, I'm not the one who put psychedelics up my ass. So...

Aww, thanks! I still have my youtube channel. It's just having fun, like an expressive dance. You learn some moves, you improv others as you go. This is what I've been really wanting to do my entire life, where the duality between work and play goes to die. And... I believe that we are all called to do the very same.

I listened to this song over and over again when I was a Christian kid. I never realized how true and prophetic it was. We're content to pitch our tent When the glory's evident Seldom do we know the glory came and went Moving can seem dangerous In this stranger's pilgrimage Knowing that you can't stand still, you cross the bridge There's a higher place to go, beyond belief, beyond belief Where we reach the next plateau, beyond belief, beyond belief And from faith to faith we grow Towards the center of the flow Where He beckons us to go, beyond belief, beyond belief Leap of faith without a net Makes us want to hedge our bet Waters never part until our feet get wet There's a deeper place to go Where the road seems hard to hoe He who has begun this work won't let it go And it takes so long to see the change But we look around and it seems so strange We have come so far but the journey's long And we once were weak but now we're strong

If consciousness existed within the brain, there could be no here or there. You could only be conscious of what was in the brain, not the rest of your body or your surroundings or anything else outside. And YET, there is no here or there anyway which is exactly why there can seem to be here and there. Fucking brilliant. Well played God, well played. "Ahem, playing not played." Oh right. This, Now, Isness. Gotcha. "No, you don't got nothing."

Yeah, the collapse of the collapse is bliss. If you want to imagine wreckage and void, go for it I guess. When that finally collapses too, it'll just seem all the more amazing.

Well, you have to have time and space in order to have direction. A snake eating its own tail is strange enough, no one stops and says "hey, isn't the snake supposed to be eating it's tail clockwise, why is it counter clockwise?" It's weird enough already.

@arlin The collapse of the collapse is the only true collapse. If you are there conscious of void or a collapse, or fear, nothing has occurred. Nothing has occurred is always the case. My advice, go into Abraham Hick's teachings. Jim Newman and Leo won't make any sense unless you realize the power of focus of desire and love. She will seem like a complete 180 from this stuff, but that's the brilliance of it, she will give you the decoder you need to go deeper.

present, pre sent from Latin prae- (“pre-”) + esse (“to be”). present, give, your life is not a gift, it is not a noun, it is giving itself. You are a verb, not a noun.

Really, you don't want to give your protagonist a hard time? JK Rowling never gave Harry Potter a hard time? JRR Tolkien never gave Frodo a hard time? Etc? If you attract a negative experience, it's for your growth and development, or for the story's growth and development. Therefore from the author's perspective you cannot attract anything negative.

In my experience all those things are all integrally, inseparably one. A huge part of my path was running from depression that would overtake me like a wave if I wasn't vigilant with things like diet, personal development, exercise, learning spiritually, mindfulness, etc. Eventually truth is heading straight into the suffering without any hint of resistance, letting the resistance bubble up and experiencing that resistance to love itself is the suffering. I wouldn't really call that "not caring" about it. If God is Love, then can you call seeing that truth by not caring? I guess that some spiritual traditions use that as a pointer and it's true in a way, but it sounds like a neo-advaita approach to me. I guess it's about not believing your thoughts about happiness and suffering.

It sometimes takes a weird ass epically fantastical story to break the mundane everyday story.

Look at your life from the perspective of the author of a story rather than the person or character. Why does the author give her beloved character challenges or misfortunes?

I am so fucking happy that we finally have a female VP. I didn't expect Biden to win, and didn't realize how badly I wanted this until it happened. It feels a hell of a lot easier to be raising kids, especially a daughter, today than it did a month ago.

It's like AH saying this is the best conversation ever, just pure gratitude. What's the problem? Can you re-SOURCE source? Sylar is also the hottest villain ever.

This forum is seriously like, THE best resource ever.

@Nirvanalight When we start to let go of our personal stories, (or they crumble apart anyway somehow), the ones that feel very sane, everyday and real, sometimes these other, religious, archetypal stories come in and take their place. It's like they latch on to the same belief mechanisms that are still turning somehow. We have to get very curious about them and about the beliefs holding them in place.

@abrakamowse When you're no one, you can be anyone. I guess.

No, it was like I WAS his wife.

I think that we all need to get ahold of our attention spans and learn to meditate, breathe, keep an open mind and go offline for long enough periods of time to break addiction cycles. Then hopefully we can actually have a conversation instead of this react/react, clash/clash, assume/assume pattern so many of us are stuck in. I know that for myself, it's been really difficult to focus this past week. To me focus is giving my attention to what I want, not what I don't want. Constant checking of my Facebook feed and news sites make it almost impossible to maintain, maybe that's just where I'm at. We need to be able to have the capacity to stay open and not get triggered as if we are bored while not avoiding important, stimulating subjects. If we can't, I guess we need to just drop it. I'm starting to believe that meditation is essentially the answer to everything. If awareness precedes all knowing, awareness is the only real "knowing" there ever could be. You can't outsource your source. On the morning after the election, I had not expected Biden to win, but I had this waking dream where I was a woman thinking about what I'd need to pack to move into the white house.

Do eyes create, consume, or are they a creation? Do they create themselves? Do they create themselves? Do they create themselves?

"Weird, but received" describes my entire experience on this forum so well.

He looks exhausted. I'm surprised he made it through these past 4 years so well actually. Can he? Maybe that's why it's so bad. New York City is a pretty brutal place to be based when you've done what he has done. The Bushes knew how to play this game. You can retreat to Texas, not New York City.

Oh shit! I totally forgot about the wall. Whatever happened, he realized that viruses can get over walls?

But I don't wanna. I just wanna be 4 again like it's 1992.