mandyjw

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.

Boys and their weapons. Sigh...

It's OUR enlightenment. When you figure out how to make that work out for us, let me know.

Shortly before my "awakening" in the winter I was walking or running by Pomroy's and a little fox ran across the road. I told my dad about it and he asked if it was healthy because we are always concerned about rabies. I said that it looked very healthy. During/after the awakening I realized it was a sign. Today I went for a walk to pick service berries and decided just to pop in because I was nearby. I walked up the steps of the pyramid as I often do. There right behind it was the fox, just a few feet away from me, bigger now and looking very stressed and overheated. It looked at me. My heart filled with fear. Please run away. Please be afraid of me. We shared a moment of common fear and shock to be face to face and then went away in our opposite directions.

No, I never really cared for having a social life either, yet something has always felt a little bit missing. I grew up in a really rural area and always blamed it for my lack of a social life, yet I've never left. But I've had a tiny taste of what our culture's idea of a social life is like and it's not my cup of tea. If it's a choice between that and being lonely I'd much rather live here in the woods.

Lives in Las Vegas, no social life. Huh?

@kieranperez @Billy Shears Applying spiral dynamics can be useful to help you deal with family members, it can help you filter out what you should and should not share. I like guessing where people are and occasionally throwing stuff out to gauge how they react and then I go from there. I'm lucky that my parents are both stage green but close to yellow so I don't have to be that careful. My dad occasionally entertains himself with stage turquoise stuff but doesn't quite believe that it's not just for his entertainment. I have some stage blue/lightly orange friends and we still connect just fine. Everyone has their weak spots. Everyone is searching in their own way. There are no real barriers to connection, they are just an illusion.

Ok, not that open-minded.

Sorry. Never say never, you can't know what will happen. Always keep your mind and heart open.

Ohhhhhh, so that's how you are able to put up with our bullshit. That's what all this work was for, TADA!

Yes, part of raising your consciousness means being present enough to catch when you are thinking egoic thoughts. You know them because they cause you pain. As soon as you feel that pain, you calm the mind. So awareness of how you feel is the very first, most important step. Every time you interrupt a negative thought with a conscious breath or looking at the sky and appreciating it's infinite beauty, your brain rewires itself. That's why diet, exercise, lifestyle and all personal development sort of flow into the same place of raising your consciousness, yes some steps take discipline to get there. It doesn't feel good to not have discipline when it's needed. Being unhealthy and eating a crappy diet doesn't feel good, but the reason so many people live this way is because they just aren't in tune with how they feel.

@Truthority What's worse, the thought that you're going to die or the thought that you'll live FOREVER? I'm so glad neither one is true.

Pay attention to how you feel as much as you can and as often as you can, and you'll be able to sort intuition from higher self from the ego's ramblings and demands. Even in what you wrote you mention how you want to avoid certain feelings, you already inherently know this. Our job is always to move in the direction of how we want to feel which we cannot do unless we carefully observe how we are feeling all the time. You get better and better at knowing how you feel and better and better at moving in the direction that makes you feel better. You feelings are already intuition itself, they are your inner guidance system. For example, this past winter I got an impulse to look up a book on the internet but I was busy and couldn't do it just then. I forgot what the impulse was. I vividly remember standing in my bedroom and remembering the amazing feeling of the impulse, which was still with me. I knew that I had had a really good idea and wanted to remember what it was, so after a minute I did and that time I was sure to do it. The book ended up being something entirely different from what I was expecting, it was a rabbit hole into nonduality, which was completely unexpected, because at the time I thought it was just going to be reading something fun and interesting. The thing about impulses is, they don't make logical sense so having a fun and playful spirit along with a deep desire for truth will go far. I have also experienced extremely forceful and almost terrorizing intuitions as a child before I knew how to watch my feelings. Looking back I know that if I had followed them I would have woken up, but why they came through years before I was ready to open my heart to them, I don't know. Compassionately working with fear in oneself is key. On the other side of fear is love. Of course, this is just another way of wording, pay attention to how you feel. Work with the fear, cultivate the love.