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Tim Ferriss talks a lot about the topic of mentorship. I haven't watched this one myself but pulled it up in a quick search. https://www.entrepreneur.com/video/304995

Also, love is an eternal fire.

@Nahm Wow. Love is the only thing that ever feels like the truth. It is truth beyond mind.

That's not Christianity at all, that's a handful of people's perverted conclusions of it over the years.

DAMN IT. @zeroISinfinity How exactly are we supposed to use 26 characters to communicate nondualistically?

@Anna1 I started out my spiritual journey as a Christian as a child, understood God = love and then after learning about the Law of Attraction, I think there's no other word quite like Love as a pointer. Awareness and consciousness are also really important pointers, but what is the extra thing that love or what the word "love" understood as a pointer to, adds or takes away? That's the thing that makes existence itself, and all of this work worth it, in my opinion anyway.

I'll take "Is" for 500, Alex.

Well everything is love, but love can be turned inside out and bastardized through the filter of ego and selection. We can talk about the nature of everything being love which is true. Then we can talk about how love is embodied clearly and purely. Impatience only happens when you are caught in the illusion of time and ego, so that's why it could also be said that love is patient.

Love is patient. Ohhhhh so patient.

@Joseph Maynor Have you heard of Mr.Money Mustache? He's an intense green/orange hybrid, retired at age 30 by being super smart and a total cheapskate. He's really interesting.

She both is and isn't, there both is and isn't. They both are and aren't separate. The question can't be answered. She is a projection/creation of myself, I am a projection/creation of your self. @Aakash I love you. Go away.

Sometimes (ok, a lot of the time), we mix up self-realized with our idea of perfect. Yes, she is infinite, so is everyone else when they cease to appear separate.

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.