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@SilentTears Thank you! Was there something in particular you miss? I still have access to the videos.

Great read, thank you!

Creation is contrast. Contrast is beauty. There is no one to call something ugly or beautiful, the judgement and the judge are the illusion. Do you see the problem when happiness is a thought, "something" that one experiences and judges himself as experiencing or worth of or NOT worthy of? By mentally creating a "self" he assumes happiness is something outside of himself and in doing so holds himself apart from it. The paradox is that indulging in the beauty of life is also seeking. The more you hold yourself apart from something the more deeply it seems that you suffer... the more deeply you want it. The contrast is deepened for you. Again contrast is beauty. See how beautifully designed this is??? It's brilliant. Sheer brilliance.

Hypnosis works for some, it used to be really popular long ago. The intention and focus that having another person to help you enter a meditative state quickly, is the entire purpose. Sometimes we hold ourselves from our own connection and having another person to connect with us can push through that self imposed block. Other times we can turn the other person and their confidence and ability into an additional block. You also need to be susceptible to hypnosis and even then it may take many sessions. Listen to your intuition. It is not the method itself but the love and pure intention behind it, that is what awakens, that is the key itself, not the practice. Do you have a mediation practice? Just screwing around with meditation, meditating on water, in nature, doing meditation intuitively, spontaneously can bring about breakthroughs. Meditation is essentially self hypnosis.

A friend posted on Facebook about her dog and how he was rescued from the puppy mill and has such an amazing life now. It made me think about how people love narratives like that, true or not. I did with the last dog I rescued. Like the beginning of the Harry Potter series, with Harry living a miserable existence sleeping in a cupboard under the stairs. We love contrast. When you (I) look at Leo's journey, the story, where it is now, what do we see? What do we want to happen? Where do we want it to go? One of the scenes that came to me when I got the idea for the novel right after I found Leo's videos, was one of watching lightning from a cliff under trees, over the water. I knew exactly where the story would take place, modeled after a recently discovered place that grabbed at my heart and imagination like nothing else ever had. But there was no cliff over the water, anywhere near there than I knew of. Last year I discovered an island hike accidentally when my daughter tore up an 100 year old family record piece of paper that was in an old Bible, and I had the impulse to google the name on the tiny torn up slip of paper, and found the record of this trail. It ends in a cliff over the water. Today during the video, the scene came back to me in analogy and I had never made the connection between the island cliff and the fact that I had imagined this pivotal dramatic, scene with no actual place for it to take place. And there I was, exactly there, having never made the connection of it before the analogy came out of my mouth.

Who can be muddled yet desist In stillness gradually become clear? Who can be serene yet persist In motion gradually come alive? -tao te ching Made a video today out on a hike and instead of following a process, that assumes beginning, middle, end, desired result and therefore possibility of a result that's not desired, I tried to dissect my assumptions that don't feel good about the process. I want the entire process to be enjoyable... to flow. Because my channel is growing, I want it to grow more and I also feel more prone to feeling unworthy and see a tendency to judge the results more. I see now that you can only get what you're up to speed with, feelingwise. It's not about results and talents, and trying to make those judgments destroys the creativity that is the pleasure AND the purpose. Very War of Art by Steven Pressfield realizations coming into play. You only get what you give. There's no delay, you only came for joy. It hit me how ridiculous I thought woo woo spiritual stuff was in the past, and how our of fear and avoidant it was. And I have in my head the assumption that other people see what I see now as just as ridiculous, which creates another cycle of fear and avoidance. And it hit me how in a time of fear, the clarity is so strong that you're on the right path and having the guts to say the things you really want to say, to create what you REALLY want to create is all you ever came to do anyway. The magic I felt from nature, the passion I felt for life and the idea of judgmental God (my own creation of judgement) were so at odds, all in my own psyche. Live your life like there's no catholic nun standing over your shoulder.

And yet another subscriber with the name Herman. her man, her meaning (army) man meaning man Herman Melville Hermione heroine heroin or heroine?

silence si lens soma- body psychosomatic - all connotations of this word as negative are "false", by choice, illusion. Intention is everything. Oneness is the actuality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_mutism You have brought me To that moment where words run dry To that moment where speech disappears into silence Silence I have come here Hardly knowing the reason why

Listening to the Kybalion when I work, after it was suggested by two different people in a short time and the word Hermit, Hermes, Hermetic and variations keep coming up. Last you tube subscriber had Hermet in the name, my sister sent me this message yesterday. I used to have a blog with the word hermit in it. "It’s still a rollercoaster for me, but it feels a little less intense; last week I was a little weepy; this week I’m embracing her mutism." then she corrected herself, "Hermitism" I've spent my entire life trying to convince myself to not worry about germs, not to think about them, obsess over them and to get over social anxiety, the need to distance myself from people and just get out and do things in the world. The current restrictions on life feel very strange, yet super natural to me right now. (Did you just right super natural? Did you just write the word right instead of write? What is happening here???) edit/tide Also reading Ask and it is Given, (I'm not sure what collection I bought on kindle but it's confusing to know what book I'm reading out of it, so I wanted the physical copy, especially so I can loan it out after.) Flirting with my Kriya yoga book, which has sat and gathered dust for a year. Waiting for intuition to arrive on that. I adore these cards. The more I read them the less they have to do with money. https://www.amazon.com/Money-Law-Attraction-Cards-60-Card/dp/1401923399/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=abraham+hicks+money&qid=1585394111&sr=8-3

I've been exhausted lately. Weeks ago before I got sick, I had a strange sensation in the back of my head above my neck that felt so familiar. Yet impossible to place or remember a why behind it. This morning during meditation I had a similar sensation that overtook my body and it felt like it was free different from the almost numb losing the body, losing direction of the body feelings I've tapped into before. The body scan I first read about here seems to bring about more integrated, loss/full connection feelings.

No...God works in mysterious ways, remember? https://www.amazon.com/Mountain-Unicorn-Castle-T-Shirt-Purple/dp/B0037TPECK/ref=sr_1_8?crid=11024JFDALWD2&dchild=1&keywords=unicorn+t+shirts+for+men&qid=1584204274&sprefix=unicorn+t+shirt%2Caps%2C200&sr=8-8

@SOUL I was GOING to make my own soup, really I was, but I don't have the same hat that he wears in the video, so it's just not possible for me right now.

It had better be lavender.

I love you but your salesmanship could use some work. Would you say this to someone? "Your current method of identifying yourself is unsatisfying, so you need to dislike yourself more and feel more dissatisfaction that you haven't been worthy enough of this event that will make your life satisfying." I realize that's not what you're saying, but I suspect that that's sort of how it mistakenly feels to people. All there is is satisfaction, now, either you're conscious of it or you aren't. Whatever events or awakenings that occur from feeling that satisfaction and moving in the direction of it, all bets are off. Dissatisfaction is the indicator of trying to control what cannot be. Joy and love are without control or controller. The importance of the way Leo teaches, with sharp retorts is to make sure that people don't fall into the trap of convincing themselves that they are satisfied when they are not. It's being honest enough with yourself to feel your way to satisfaction, and not trying to convince yourself into believing it. Yes, for sure. I was commenting on the recognition/reactions of Leo's opinions of people's levels of consciousness with the video though. He made a video teaching others to make their own "soup" but we're still willing to bend over backwards not realizing that it's way more work than just making our own soup. How you feel is the only thing that matters.

The EYE of the storm.

Leo even made a video telling us how to make our own soup and yet...

@remember Still love your avatar by the way. Good to remember.

There's only one person who ever mentally masturbates, because what other people are thinking is a concept or thought in your own head. So if you see other people who are doing it, guess who actually is? Not them.

Have you taken the time to really think about what you want from a relationship? Sometimes when we don't take the time to make intentions and discover what our preferences are, we spend all our time focusing on the parts of life that we're missing out on or frustrated by. We take opportunities as they come, complain about things as we see things we don't want and feel tossed about by life. All of this happens because we weren't bold enough to define for ourselves what we want. Because we don't do that we also don't appreciate the things we want and love that we already have. We've trained our brains to look for problems. It's also possible that you feel restricted and limited in a much more general sense right now by the pandemic, which we can't control, so we can try to zoom in on a part of life we can control and convince ourselves that it's more responsible for how we feel than it actually is. Sitting with, examining and getting curious about the feeling itself is really important. The key for women especially in a long term relationship is to always make your pleasure (not sexual pleasure but not excluding it) come first. Have things you're interested in, excited about, curious about, have goals and dreams that light you up. Write them down, big and small. Then the relationship stuff just happens and unfolds naturally, it's fun and spontaneous because that's your true nature and you're fully allowing and living that true nature. Otherwise expectations of having someone else being responsible for our happiness and fulfillment creep in and ruin our happiness, and we mistakenly blame the other person.

@Preety_India You? Me? God? No one? Seeking credibility in authority kind of defeats the purpose of spirituality and integrating the two, doesn't it? If something doesn't resonate skip over it. The further you go sometimes the stranger the analogies, symbolism and language gets. Every statement is a half truth, so if you react against it as false it's helpful to take a step back and ask ourselves what in us brought about a reaction. The entire purpose of an insight is to both feel and know at the same time, it's where knowledge and love and being come together. If we spend our time just looking for stuff that doesn't fit into what we already know or are willing to consider as valid, we don't get new insights.

The feminine/masculine labels stuck on these two approaches mean very little, but help to explain and separate two approaches. Masculine says "I am God, I seek truth". Feminine says I am creation, I seek love. Yet there is no Truth without Love. And there is no Love without Truth. Like in the story of Narcissus, masculine is Narcissus, Feminine is echo. There is neither narcissist nor empath, male or female, each is only embodying part of the whole, creating the other as a pointer to wholeness.

As weird as it sounds I've come across descriptions of the same kind of thing. Basically even spiritual energies are regarded/recognized/worshiped as dualities... because people and the mind create dualities, that's just what we do. It's easiest to think of it in this example, the Christian church recognizes one, wicca and witchcraft recognizes another. They even imply gender, the Heavenly Father and the Goddess. Each deny the Oneness or divinity of the other. Because of the imbalance, severe imbalance can manifest as intense charisma, such as in the case of Hitler with severe consequences. And having grown up in Christianity, I've seen the same smaller scale effect in many pastors and leaders. Outside of religion, with people who recognize oneness and nonduality, the same imbalances can manifest.

Maybe the ox is a strangeloop. What happens if the guy in the last picture forgets and starts searching, AGAIN??? Hold on, that's NOT WHAT I SIGNED UP FOR!