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Whoa. That's what the lyrics are? We're talking away I don't know what I'm to say I'll say it anyway Today's another day to find you Shying away I'll be coming for your love, okay? [Chorus] Take on me (Take on me) Take me on (Take on me) I'll be gone In a day or two [Verse 2] So needless to say I'm odds and ends But I'll be stumbling away Slowly learning that life is okay Say after me It's no better to be safe than sorry [Chorus] Take on me (Take on me) Take me on (Take on me) I'll be gone In a day or two [Instrumental Break] [Verse 3] Oh, things that you say Is it a life or just to play my worries away? You're all the things I've got to remember You're shying away I'll be coming for you anyway [Outro] Take on me (Take on me) Take me on (Take on me) I'll be gone In a day Take on me (Take on me) Take me on (Take on me) I'll be gone In a day

I'd say yes, but it's more complicated than that, the answer depends on your beliefs and experience. Meditation cuts down on thoughts of stress and illness, so you'd attract them into your experience less. However if you mediate because you're afraid of getting sick, you intention to push away sickness may instead become a focus on illness and could attract illness until you get over the need or condition to be healthy over being sick.

We think that what other people say has the power to hurt us but we are the ones who make our decisions and decide how we feel about things. It's completely possible to enjoy a friendship with someone even if they say discouraging things, but only if we accept that we are the ones with the power to believe what we want and feel the way we want. If you find yourself easily affected by this sort of thing then it may be wise to take a step back, until you can gain the strength to take a different approach to take the best and leave the rest. Sometimes the best thing someone can do for you is say something is a bad idea and it only motivates you all the more to prove them wrong. It's all entirely up to you how you take their words. There's never any need to take action to cut people out of your life, if they aren't meant to be there, they'll leave on their own. And in my experience come back at just the perfect time for both of you. No one is ever going to be developed on the same level we are in all the areas of development there are to tackle in life. We are here for each other. It's amazing how fast your own growth can inspire and influence other people, even if they meet it with resistance at first. There's no need to hide your light.

In some of his talks he mentions some pretty profound earlier insights prior to the awakening. Also this is his background as according to Wikipedia. "Born Ulrich Leonard Tölle in Lünen, a small town located north of Dortmund in the Ruhr Valley, Germany in 1948,[3][11][12] Tolle describes his childhood as unhappy—particularly his early childhood in Germany. His parents fought and eventually separated, and he felt alienated from a hostile school environment.[13] He also experienced considerable fear and anxiety growing up in post-war Germany, where he would play in bombed-out buildings. He later stated that pain "was in the energy field of the country".[14] At the age of 13, he moved to Spain to live with his father.[13] His father did not insist that he attend high school, so Tolle elected to study literature, astronomy and various languages at home.[11][13] At the age of 15, he read several books written by the German mystic Joseph Anton Schneiderfranken, also known as Bô Yin Râ. Tolle has said he responded "very deeply" to those books.[13] At the age of 19, he moved to England and for three years taught German and Spanish at a London school for language studies.[15] Troubled by "depression, anxiety and fear", he began "searching for answers" in his life.[13] In his early twenties, he decided to pursue his search by studying philosophy, psychology, and literature, and enrolled in the University of London.[13] After graduating,[13] he was offered a scholarship to do postgraduate research at Cambridge University, which he entered in 1977 but dropped out soon after.[5][11]" So that's a pretty unique childhood, with lots of religious and philosophical contemplation. I'd say he was definitely a seeker.

Romance and nonduality/spirituality have been confused from the very start and embedded in little girl's minds. Or their nature is inconveniently and unavoidably one anyway.

I had a cat when I was a kid named Chiquitita or Chiky for short. (a Spanish term of endearment for a woman meaning "little one") My Dad accidentally ran over her. She was deaf and fell asleep right under the tire of a trailer he had hooked up to his truck. I remember how awful he felt and that he took me to the beach that afternoon. Today I met a man driving a truck driving a bit aggressively and it brought up a reaction in me of fear, shirking and feeling unimportant and insignificant. I already mentioned that I loved Abba when I was a kid. There's another funny synchronicity with this. As a kid I had this crazy love for fun and confidence. A few years of school turned me into a scared little mouse. The mother of one of my classmates early on was a very confident woman. She hadn't seen me in years and came to the school to do a story on a project we were doing, sending cookies to troops overseas. I remember that day I was helping in the kitchen and I touched my hair and a teacher screamed at me to wash my hands and not to touch my hair. At that moment she (the reporter) took a picture of me touching my hair and looking up terrified and that same stupid picture made it into the local paper. She asked my mother what had happened to me, noting that my personality had changed so dramatically. So the walls came tumbling down And your love's a blown out candle All is gone and it seems too hard to handle Chiquitita, tell me the truth There is no way you can deny it I see that you're oh so sad, so quiet Chiquitita, you and I know How the heartaches come and they go and the scars they're leaving You'll be dancing once again and the pain will end You will have no time for grieving Chiquitita, you and I cry But the sun is still in the sky and shining above you Let me hear you sing once more like you did before Sing a new song, Chiquitita Try once more like you did before Sing a new song, Chiquitita Try once more like you did before Sing a new song, Chiquitita

@Chumbimba Seriously, check out Abraham Hicks if she resonates with you. It took me years of Eckhart to even get to the point where I was open-minded enough for her stuff, but it sounds like you're already there. When I was a kid we spent part of a summer digging up gravel and screening it into buckets to fix our septic system because my parents refused to hire someone... so yeah... lots of beliefs around money to unwire.

Yes, it was a hugely important read for me. Sorry you didn't ask me this but it made me realize I gotta be honest, I did have a lot of doubts and thoughts like this at the time. I ended up later understanding that it was a shadow I had around money and limitation mindset. I still have that shadow come up but I kinda "see" it now. Studying the law of attraction and kinda feeling into the truth of it was a huge breakthrough for me in this area.

Not sure why I was curious to look this up. "'No Man is an Island' No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as any manner of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." This reminds me of one of my big insights from Abraham Hicks regarding the pouty little girl at the parade at Disney who said that the parade wasn't just for her, it was for all these other people. It's FOR YOU, it's all FOR YOU! I remembered today that when I was really little my sister did cheerleading for a year or two and I was SO excited to get old enough so I could. I'd borrow her pom poms and prance and flail around all the time. I went to some of the games and stood up on my chair and did the dance moves. When I finally got that old all the making fun of cheerleaders had gotten to me and I made fun of it too. My sister quit cheerleading at school quite quickly, but years later when she was still living at home started bellydancing. I did some of the moves with her but mostly made fun of her. She had a job working with wildlife for a while and she got a vanity plate that said WILDLFE. It was definitely a double meaning. It's pretty funny to remember that after dragging up a bunch of animal symbolism. I remember that toward the end of high school I had this moment when I realized that I regretted not cheerleading and just playing it safe all the time. The cheerleading was the one thing that really stuck out to me though.

I think he has an amazing gift as a teacher for bridging levels of consciousness. He says just enough but not too much.

A long time ago I was at an event with my father in law. I said that if I had gone to college I would have gone into psychology. "Psychology" he said. "Only the people who are crazy and need psychology go into psychology." It took me so long to forgive him for that. It's really quite hilarious now. Oh, for all the jokes that went straight over my head.

Under lying. Under lie ing?

Love itself is how you know you're observing the observer. When you feel love, congrats you've got it!

@MrDmitriiV Everything is very connected. It seems like a reaction that follows a trigger is simply a response to that. A deep negative reaction is always a negative reaction to yourself, this is a well practiced thought/ reaction pattern. Instead of focusing specifically on this subject, pay attention to all the ways you judge yourself, going into thoughts that feel awful rather than dropping the thoughts and tuning into self love. Judgement/triggered is one movement, the trigger just means that the judgement occurs really fast. It's all the same effect of the illusion of separation. Love is the only thing that can heal or join it into one. We cannot judge ourselves for judging others if we want to stop judging. See the hilarity here? We also have to be able to "see" how we judge without judgement. How? Self Love. No self, no other.

mmhmm

@Zigzag Idiot I LOVE Borat. I never really understood how sexual repression is much different with men and often around the area of homosexuality. I was tempted to blame my father for some of the things he raised me to believe because he didn't understand how from the female perspective they'd cause damage, and then I asked him about his childhood and was absolutely shocked and ended up appreciating how far he had come. The judge others/ judge self, not understanding that they are the same, vicious cycle has all kinds of manifestations that hide the under lying misunderstanding.

@Preetom You're BACK!

There are no cons to spirituality, there is suffering that we cause ourselves sometimes trying to figure out what direction we should go in and what we really want. Spirituality is inseparable from the rest of life. Some people know on a level of thought and speech that they are interested in it, and others don't yet.

Well if YOU'RE God what does that make me?

Keep in mind that the judgement of the coworker chewing his finger is the very same thought movement as judging yourself for being triggered by it. Those two judgements are not actually separate.

You're so beautiful that you don't have a face. You're so intelligent that you don't have a brain. You're so wise that you're a fool. You're so valuable and important that you're disposable. You're so loved that you're all alone.

I was feeling prone to depression off and on today, knowing with even greater clarity that in these cases meditation = self love. I started feeling frustrated and impatient because I had to walk across a sheet of ice and I just stopped and was present with it and remembered how ridiculous it is for someone to complain about walking on ice when that same person tells themselves that they love to ice skate. What's the difference really? Choice and intention. What does one really want, but to make every moment a conscious choice (acceptance) and to have intention. This becomes more necessary and harder when you're interrupted with kids and disasters frequently. I was feeling lonely, and contemplating why I would feel lonely after realizing that I'm completely responsible for my feelings. I took a shower which always improves my mood but my daughter came up after two minutes with a tantrum of crying and screaming because she ate all her cheerios. I tried offering her solutions and telling her to be patient but she wasn't having it. Again I meditated through it. I also noticed a sort of effortlessness to it, like I just wasn't tempted to join her in her intense frustration. This idea pleased me and then it really just struck me as funny that I was feeling lonely and having a screaming child was what finally cheered me up and just then she stuck her head in the shower curtain and saw me laughing, which made her scream harder and me laugh more. I got so overzealous with dancing and Pilates over the past week that I hurt my foot. Probably due to my misinterpretation of self love. I got under my goal weight I had written on my vision board so I wrote down my absolute ideal instead. I need to get more even keel on dieting and fitness and let the foot heal. I am still somewhat shocked how far I got in a week by envisioning and loving every minute of it.

@Emerald I wonder if when we awaken or experience wholeness if when the mind comes in to interpret after the fact, that it points to the thing that we were repressing previous to the experience. It points to the piece that wasn't seen or accepted before and says that specific part is what I experienced. I recently would have said that I had an experience of the Divine Feminine too, but now I'm interpreting the experience differently. An awakening after the fact is always still a story open for interpretation.