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The Devil will be thrown into a lake of fire. Now that's a paradox.

@Jg17 Brilliant, you took it further than I did. We wrote all those rhymes, legends and childhood stories, God is the author of it all. The Truth is... it's all Fiction. What fun to wake up to the dream together and continue to dream it.

Leo chooses to speak about nonduality in a very dualistic way sometimes. It's kind of brilliant when you realize that nonduality includes duality itself, and often what blocks us from realizing it is our belief that the nonduality side is the only true side and that nonduality can only be taught in a certain way.

@pluto It's not a competition.

I meant it both about conversations with trees and this very thread and while I'm at it, all conversations had everywhere.

@DrewNows That looks amazing!!!

@seeking_brilliance "A New Earth" is great. I love how it starts with the metaphor of how flowers evolved, and then exploded to include most of the plant kingdom. We're definitely seeing the flowering of human consciousness now.

This is my favorite quote from Moby Dick. “Even though white is often associated with things, that are pleasant and pure, there is a peculiar emptiness about the color white. It is the emptiness of the white that is more disturbing, than even the bloodiness of red.” ― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, or, the Whale Terence McKenna says American will be remembered for two things, going to the moon and writing "Moby Dick". The best books about enlightenment are novels.

I couldn't have imagined a better conversation if I had tried.

@Natasha Almost everything about goats is just surreal. I challenge anyone to really look into a goat's eyes and still think that reality is "real."

My daughter has been listening to Bible school songs on youtube recently, thanks to me getting the impulse to sing "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands", a few days ago it has since become something she really likes and asks for. Today she asked for the "Hello, I'm Crazy" song. Which took me a minute and some questioning to figure out she meant "Hallelujah", "Praise Ye the Lord."

@Apparation of Jack Angels = aliens. Same thing. You can create all kinds of weird appearances in order to help you awaken as one with it all.

In the Bible Jesus curses a fig tree and it withers, and somewhere studying Gnostic texts I read something about him killing other children as a child. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/nzn5zd/baby-jesus-was-kind-of-a-dick

@Leo Gura WOW! I've seen white deer but didn't know there were albino moose. I did meet the moose who pooped on my starflower, occasionally moose get meningitis and lose their senses. I was running on the trail and didn't see her until I was about 6 feet from her, and I had so much zen presence of mind that I screamed in her face. She just kind of head butted at me but never touched me. A few weeks later she went up to people's houses so they called a game Warden and he shot her.

If you were raised up in Christianity you'd know the doubtful thought that washed over you every now and then, "What the fuck are we going to DO in heaven? It sounds so boring." The best answer I ever got was that God might let us become some kind of angel, (think aliens) and we would be allowed to screw around with other people's flawed planets. If there's nothing to "fix" there's nothing to do. If there's nothing unwanted there's nothing to want. The beauty of creation is the beauty of duality. Oneness transcends but oneness includes separateness itself.

Symbols are a way in which duality starts to collapse. They are a visual form of synchronicity. Symbols can spark insights, give guidance or just be purely fun and reassuring. Often they are like a present from the universe, (like an Easter egg hidden by you, for you to find). All you have to do to see more of them is become more aware of what you see, have an open mind and have faith and understanding that you create your reality. You know how when you start to notice a certain model of car, you start to see them EVERYWHERE? We were always told that that's how the brain works, it sorts through lots of information to only notice what's important. While that is still true in a way, nonduality and the knowledge of how your thoughts create your reality changes that phenomenon to something much deeper and more profound. Symbols are a way that we can see glitches in the illusion of reality and start to see through it. Study and really understand the law of attraction, (I really recommend Abraham Hicks!) and you'll see more of anything you want, whether it be symbols or anything else.

Here's the deep woods version of no mud, no lotus. A starflower growing up through a huge pile of moose poop.

Well, there you go! Sure you don't want the rest of the signs? Some of them are pretty entertaining.

@Mikael89 Q: Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could spare our loved one's from all suffering? Eckhart Tolle: No, it wouldn’t. They would not evolve as human beings and would remain shallow, identified with the external forms of things. Suffering drives you deeper. The paradox is that suffering is caused by identification with form and erodes identification with form. A lot of it is caused by the ego, although eventually suffering destroys the ego – but not until you suffer consciously. Humanity is destined to go beyond suffering, but not the way the ego thinks. One of the egos many erroneous assumptions, one of its many deluded thoughts is “I should not have to suffer.” Sometimes the thought gets transferred to someone close to you: “My child should not have to suffer.” That thought itself lies at the root of suffering. Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego. The man on the cross is an archetypal image. He is every man and every woman. As long as you resist suffering, it is a slow process because the resistance creates more ego to burn up. When you accept suffering, however, there is an acceleration of that process which is brought about by the fact that you suffer consciously. You can accept suffering for yourself, or you can accept if for someone else, such as your child or parent.In the midst of conscious suffering, there is already the transmutation. The fire of suffering becomes the light of consciousness.The ego says, “I shouldn’t have to suffer,” and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of the truth, which is always paradoxical. The truth is that you need to say yes to suffering before you can transcend it. ECKHART TOLLE - A NEW EARTH

@DrewNows Thanks! I have about 20 more shots of the same moth on my camera that are really blurry.

Here's a hummingbird moth I saw today, I was so confused the first time I saw one as a kid.

Rebecca at the well fountain, a dog statue with conch shells lining the fountain edges and walkways. https://mastermindcontent.co.uk/the-symbolic-meaning-of-the-conch-shell-in-buddhism/

The past two nights I dreamed about Grammie. She was alive in the dream the night before but last night I was attending some sort of funeral or memorial service for her. Backstory, my cousin was very close to my grandmother but always took advantage of her, even stealing money at one point so that my mom had to take over Grammie's finances. Grammie lived on foodstamps with barely enough to live on, but was never bothered by it. I was so angry with my cousin that year that I didn't even attend Thanksgiving dinner. I thought I was above the whole ignorant family and I didn't want to see my cousin who everyone forgave like it was nothing. It never dawned on me that my anger at my cousin was only hurting my Grandmother if she even cared much about me not being there. Hardly anything really bothered my Grammie. My cousin has identical twins girls who are hilarious energetic kids but last night I dreamed that they were younger than they are now and that my Mom was babysitting them for my cousin and when we got to the service she freaked out at my Mom for bringing them late. They weren't actually late at all but my mom like always, apologized and never stood up for herself or the fact that she was doing my cousin a big favor by babysitting for free in the first place. It triggered my anger in the dream but I became conscious of it in the dream. My cousin even apologized later. Then I went to the bathroom but my friend's little boy, the one whose Dad just died in a car accident in May, kept opening the door. It pointed out how I was taught to always give and forgive on the surface and never make waves with people but that it's ok to hold grudges and isolate yourself. Also how "otherly" I've made my cousin. Last night I was looking for the moon in the sky and couldn't find it but Venus was really bright, and when I went to bed Venus was staring at me out the window perfectly positioned for me to see. It was too hot to have the blinds down. I woke up really early after the dream and gone was Venus but exactly in it's place was the moon.