mandyjw

You do misspell things occasionally. I think Esther Hicks is pretty brilliant, channeling higher wisdom while not taking credit and being open that the medium/herself is limited and human and even using it as an example to enhance her teachings. I also can't help but think that slapping a male's name on her work didn't help.

Yes, the act of creation itself creates the illusion of a creator and creation, duality, finite is inherent in separate. Maybe teachers exist as bridges that only appeal to certain people and only take them so far. The teacher/student duality, and the speaker/listener duality is assumed.

But do each leave certain things unsaid on purpose or is that truly how they see it? People who chose not to teach leave everything unsaid, it feels so wrong and yet so right. It doesn't really matter, does it?

I'm really interested to hear what you have to say in the next video, every episode I've watched so far has sparked ideas but also frustration that I don't know what to do to help people. I'm confident that I know who to vote for, it's my everyday relationships with people and my community that I feel like I'm really opting out of. I think of how Dollar Generals have moved into rural areas everywhere to cater to people who don't have the means to travel to a better place to get food and household items. If I had a magic fairy wand I would turn every Dollar General into a grocery store with healthy fresh food. But would it just sit there and rot? How do you go about doing something so simple as promoting healthier eating and lifestyles in a place that is a food desert? The corporations feed people's lower selves and people's lower selves feed the corporations. Obviously legislation that promotes healthy diet and lifestyle and limits the power of corporations to exploit and add things into food is called for. But how do you improve things on BOTH ends? How do you keep people from feeling like government is forcing them to change but instead empower them with the desire to do it themselves?

I've always had a lot more chronic pain problems on left side. I've always thought that was really odd! There is no duality between healing within or without, please get it checked out! Feminine energy is much more complicated than our understanding of it, in fact there is no power inherent in masculine or feminine energy itself. The better balanced the more effective they are, and the less you can tell the difference between the two. The more you dissolve the ego and identification with self or either one the more they will balance on their own. I think we have to have a strong masculine side to resonate with Leo's teaching style. I tried to explain how the universe is made of love to my friend using his words and it wasn't resonating at all so I re-framed it the way Abraham Hicks describes it with source energy and she got it immediately. I think that the whole forum/community is making a lot of progress integrating the feminine though.

I believe that everyone is really unique and has different techniques that work really well for them. I've had a lot of growth from running which seems to increase the more and more I learn about and practice spirituality. Running is an amazing combination of focusing on your breath, body awareness, meditation and its secret power is that it puts you into a flow state of cognition. You will have less thoughts but they will be from a creative place, (none other than Source, Love, God, the Universe, etc). There is also potential for the mind to run rampant in negativity, so unless you are consciously doing shadow work or working through something (for which running is also amazing), you need a little bit of focus. I find it a lot easier to focus while running than during sitting meditation though I currently do both, it's as if my body is doing some of the work for me when running. If you start to notice any discomfort, direct your attention to focus on your breath, surroundings, or come back to the space of awareness. Your brain releases chemicals (dopamine) during exercise which naturally boosts your mood but I suspect there's a lot more going on than just that. Don't be much concerned about mileage, or your speed. Running in nature or in a quiet place (not a lot of traffic) outside is ideal if you can. I find it helpful to balance out meditation the purpose of which is to clear the mind of thoughts, with a practice that has a very lose purpose. For me running is so effective maybe because I'm accepting of what ever state I'm in, whether if I have few thoughts, no thoughts or a lot of thoughts. Sitting would be too free structured for me, but the running grounds me and puts me in a different state. Walking can have similar results but there's something about running that really intensifies the effect at least for myself.

@Joseph Maynor Huh?

Every goodbye is a kind of death.

@Jonac I really, love that, it's certainly a piece that speaks. This is an old scratchboard piece I dug up from highschool, 13+ years ago.

Hmm... You've got me thinking, the deep breathing and maybe also the fact that the spine is straight while running, at least if you run with good form? I love yoga, swimming and sometimes weights but they seem too broken up for me to get into a good flow state. I'm sure if I was better practiced with them that that wouldn't be the case.

Nothing is ever wasted. That's a freeing insight I want to go deeper with at some point. "Waste not, want not." It should go, "want not, waste not." I love cliches.

Yes, often it's a time that you were really connected with your true self, or else really challenging yourself in a positive and thrilling way. That connection exists now. It's always very moving. Feelings like that get really strong as your awareness increases, because you are seeking and opening up to that Love/Source connection.

Synchronicity is amazing. I saw a hummingbird come to the flowers in my window for the first time shortly after reading this. I recently met someone with the last name Riddle and she posted a drawing on Facebook, I didn't even know she was an artist. The drawing was of a chipmunk/dragonfly/hummingbird hybrid creature carrying a bag full of rocks and the drawing said, what rocks are you carrying around? A couple days before I was swimming at the place I met her and I watched a chipmunk get stuck under the bridge in the current of the river and I watched him do gymnastics for a long time to try to get out. Eventually he had to just go with the current and swim out to shore downstream. I found a dragonfly in the road and picked him up. I thought he was hurt and almost dead but after a minute or two he flew away.

I got married when I was 20, and have been married for 10 years at the end of this month. No regrets. I'm not sure if I'd recommend that other people should or shouldn't get married, you'll know what's right for you.

We cannot be enlightened apart. We are enlightened together. Are you laughing? I'm laughing. FUCK. I'm so glad I saved the first part of my journal. You can't make great art unless you're lonely as fuck. Off I go, wish me luck.

You don't want this to end. Neither do I. Herein lies the problem. It was never meant to end.

I was just going to write that, lol. Read to find examples of the best writing that inspires you and then study it and figure out what makes it good. Then integrate what you learn with your own voice and style.

I love this. Thanks for sharing your story, you're amazing!

I'm still working through the conscious politics videos and just finished the part where @Leo Gura warns about romanticizing the past. I definitely understand why that's important, especially looking at how Donald Trump appealed to that way of thinking with his "Make America Great Again". Yet, learning from the past is not only done by looking back at our mistakes, but by looking at people and society's greatest successes. Stage orange has dissolved community and put the individual above all, we may have to look back to stage blue for tips in order to help us envision and build a community again. Prejudices won't have to come with it. Past and future is an illusion. It's only above moving toward what is wanted.

"If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides." -- Montesquieu Well that explains why God always seems to have a dick.

You can imagine people are however you want them to be behind written text.

Love can build a bridge.

Eckhart Tolle credits the lighter energy field of the Pacific Northwest with his ability to write The Power of Now. He got an impulse to move there that didn't go away and when he did the book happened. The problem with cities in general is that they embrace stage orange in such a dramatic way. In a large city you see the wealthiest and the most impoverished examples of people all day long. Your survival = money. In a rural area, a recession never hits that hard, community and neighbors have your back to some degree and there's always food to be found or grown if you don't have money. The flip side is that cities where you don't need a car are much better for the health of the planet, they are worse for your own health though. People in NYC live in high stress and breath terrible air, yet they have the lowest carbon footprint of almost anyone. Going for a run in NYC is worse than smoking a cigarette. We really need to redesign communities for both people and the planet.

Whaaaaat? There's a book about him? He's sort of kind of been my hero ever since he was found out and I heard about him. I always wondered how he survived going from the woods to jail, that seems like the cruelest thing imaginable to do to someone like that.