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Penis envy is somewhat understandable, but hairy balls envy, not so much.

@arlin When I was a teenager I once laughed at a guy who was hitting on me as a knee jerk reaction because I didn't believe someone would actually hit on me and felt awkward. His friend punched him like he was a loser and I realized what I had done too late. I still feel awful about it. You really never know what anyone else is thinking. Even if they are clearly being mean, it's driven by insecurity.

I've been running around like chicken with its head cut off and just found an actual dead chicken with its head cut off in the place I go swimming. So I asked a lady with the name Riddle and she said she put it there. For real. Creepy AF. LOA, signs from the universe from yourself to yourself, Apophenia, it's all the same!

What a powerful incentive to self-actualize and realize your full potential, your hairy balls will be discussed in depth by groups of highly conscious people.

@Someone here Well, marketing is all about making what you do sound more interesting than it is.

@Someone here I make money doing what I love. It's just selling love, buying love, selling love, buying, nothing is actually lost or gained.

@Someone here Do you see the distinction between "my or your idea of homeless people in general" and an actual individual homeless person I interact with?

@Someone here Do you realize how incredibly disrespectful of someone's individual incredibly unique story it is to lump them in a group and project suffering on them? If you want to help homeless or hungry people, make that your life mission.

Who knows? Are you homeless and dying of hunger? If you're so interested, go out and interview one. I'm not gonna assume or speak for anyone else, all I know is my own experience. Here I'll share. My house is messy as fuck and I have a shit ton of work to do and I'm wondering why I can't attract cleaning fairies to help while I'm procrastinating and typing smart ass replies on an internet forum. But that's my conscious choice, so. Ah, sheer freedom.

It's just a story. The documentary brilliantly tells it for the purpose of entertainment. It was a reaction of personalities and circumstances with that conservative town in Oregon, but ultimately as impersonal and random as the formation of the universe itself. Both the town, the US government officials, Osho and Sheela and the people the community attracted were all trying to heal themselves, mutually attracting and reacting into the characters they played at the time of it, among all those crazy circumstances. The problem with spiritual communities is that they often start with the assumption that there are spiritual people and not spiritual people.

Ok, try to eat money, sleep with money, and build a shelter with it. I mean, you could try to do those things with a pile of 100 dollar bills, but all those are are just representations of the money anyway. You want money cause you want freedom to spend it on things you think will make you feel complete, loved, exhilarated, free and secure. And you can feel that way right now. With money or without it.

@Someone here Nobody wants money, actually.

@Mikael89 Not everyone has access to clean water. If you were living in those conditions and then had the ability to do that you'd be on cloud 9. Hedonic adaptation. Hack it.

Kinda like one of Peter Ralston's recent videos, Newton's realization wasn't that the apple fell down, it was that the apple didn't fall up. Sometimes it's not about getting what you want, it's realizing that you want what you already have and then you get what you want anyway, but it couldn't really have added to the perfection of what you already had. Goddamn it! God is perfect all encompassing love, that little fucker. He doesn't even care if I talk bad about him, cause he doesn't really exist.

Well, then if you want you can play the part of the person in the audience judging it and throwing rotten tomatoes. Win, win.

Driving a truck is bad for your back, but you can mitigate all that. Get back support, try a special back pain seat cushion for the truck seat, also do yin yoga or other types of yoga and stretching and ab exercises to strengthen your abs and take stress off your back. Also often with meditation we overly value going slow and having the leisure of time, but you can't be intensely present while going very fast, efficiently. You can't get into that flow if you think your life should look a different way and have some vision of yourself alone sitting on a mountain. Surrender into the rush. I mean, you're pretty much some sort of Santa Claus. Driving can be an incredibly awesome activity for focus. Your survival stuff and spiritual stuff aren't at odds.

I had a majorly life disrupting awakening in the middle of having two young kids and running a business. No regrets, it couldn't have been any different. Everything worked out fine, better than fine actually.

It's some people's first understanding of going deeper with spirituality. For others, generally the hard working, hardnosed, truth lovers, it's the last. It took me forever to open my mind up to Abraham Hicks, but I have a friend who just naturally lives that way. Impulsively, spontaneously, and has all the time and everything almost always just mysteriously works out for her. I always thought she was just irresponsible.

This is all an act. Actualized.org is an act, actually in actuality. Just put on a fun costume and have good time.

I'm pretty sure it's very common for the transition to college to be really confusing and difficult. Be mindful of the self concepts you have around yourself being an achiever or a high conscious person. Sometimes these concepts get in the way of connecting with our intuition, knowing what we want to do next, and taking a necessary break to reset and let that inner guidance come in. It's ok to just want to know what it is you want. If you pull up too many programs on your computer at once, you have to turn it off and turn it back on again. While meditation at its best is turning off the computer, sometimes we even have to quit meditation itself again to come back to it again without all our ideas about it and the self concept of one who meditates.

@Name Where does the feeling in your hands start and stop?

The law of attraction fits in seamlessly with nonduality and meditation. Gotta be honest though, the first time I heard about it my reaction was "oh... fuck". The "present moment" seemed a much kinder introduction.

One year my parents grew beans and made my sister and I shuck them. It was AWFUL. There were lots of moldy ones, they are really hard to dry properly and it took forever. Without modern machinery and technology, those staple foods are very labor intensive and do not keep all that long anyway. I think they're healthy but not in huge amounts.

@zeroISinfinity "Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about." Rumi

@GoingHome Fictional stories have an amazing ability to open minds and hearts. There's no self when you're lost in a story. You have to see yourself in the other characters.