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That's the nature of enlightenment, there is no male or female, you are magical but you just don't see it. Your spiritual pursuit is one without limits and yet you limit yourself in the "real" world so severely and painfully. Why? There cannot be a difference between your two "lives" or your pursuits. The only desire you could ever have for a woman is just desire to know yourself as One. There is only one desire, a desire for oneness masquerading as all sorts of things.

I finished the video today, I thought it was really good and a necessary reminder of how easy it is to fall into the trap of feeling like you're "above" politics because you've evolved beyond getting easily triggered by opposing views or events. Once you have an understanding of how reality is created, having conscious focus on or attention to politics seems very necessary. I believe that just the intention and desire to move toward something better and paying attention itself is the most important thing. An understanding of spiral dynamics and having compassion and acceptance for people where they are seems like the foundation for knowing what action to take. Right now I feel lost in not knowing what exactly that action is, so the temptation to put my head in the sand is strong. You definitely brought to light a lot of my entitlement I feel towards the government, and I don't mean the type of entitlement that Republicans like to talk about.

@hariseldon74 Wow, no I hadn't heard of her before, I'll check out her channel.

I still really wish I was as magical as @Mikael89 thinks I am, just for being female. Maybe when I'm enlightened I will be, but then I won't identify as female anymore. GOD DAMN YOU UNIVERSE.

@Shaun You have the gift of feeling things with intensity. Why do the best gifts feel like curses sometimes? Because we don't accept them. We have them but we don't say yes to them. I really feel for you and can really relate to you because much of my journey was and is being really sensitive to things and wanting to shirk from them and hide. What Nahm says is so true, when we are not in alignment our feelings let us know, and when we are REALLY not thinking about things the way that God sees things, it REALLY hurts. Therefore your sensitivity means you are spiritually gifted. But you have to use it. You can learn to align with life, love the universe, God, in fact, the gift is that you are so sensitive that you have no other choice but to align with it. I really, really , REALLY recommend Abraham Hicks for teaching you how to do so. You got this.

No, it's empty everythingness, pure potential. Every time we grasp for truth with thought, we separate it from the whole. Thought is a knife that cuts the absolute into relative bits.

Everyone is different and where you are in life and what you want at the time also changes your sex drive. Sex is often about power and it can be a hidden unconscious motive that masquerades as high sex drive or low sex drive depending on your psychology.

@Apparation of Jack That's a really good explanation. Seeing strong reactivity in someone running for politics deeply bothers me more than their ideals and opinions.

@Marc Schinkel I haven't listened to that one enough. Thanks. @hariseldon74 YES! I got outside for a walk last night and there was a thunderstorm off in the distance, God's rays through the clouds and then lightning. It was a great show. I'm getting a better look at what causes my hermit tendencies. Like everything it has a light side and a dark side. Understanding the behavior helps to let it go and stop letting it define (limit) "you". Sometimes we have to experience consciously the pattern to understand it. Of course at its root is the I thought, the I thought that automatically creates the other, believes that it (ego) will be more spiritual and at peace if the other is avoided. We want hard and fast rules to things. "The guru shouldn't speak so much." "Silence is holy." "It's better to not get involved or make waves." All these things are trying to find ground in groundlessness. When you give yourself (to God), you don't know what you'll do or say next but you know the place it will come from.

Love has its way of doing that to people.

Is it just me or is there something really off about Marianne Williamson? I like the message but the way it's delivered is not quite... there.

When someone stays silent, we often assume that they are intelligent. Sometimes people are truly wise and careful with their words and other times they are just afraid of saying something wrong or causing others to disagree with them. You can get a feeling for it in person, on a forum, not so much because you don't exist unless you have something to type. When I was a teenager I was very outspoken about my conservative values around a liberal community and I got corrected really fast. I've had a lot of growth from saying stupid things and being open to correction, especially here. I thought that I had things to say that could help other people and I thought I was doing them a favor by correcting them but in the end it lead to my own seeing my own bullshit. When I speak from the ego, I trigger other egos. By trying (and failing) to speak from truth I get closer to knowing what truth is. I believe that we are all here evolving and learning together, we are here for each other. Love, truth, connection, speaking from the heart, it's all the same thing. First connect to that place and then try to speak, seeing if you can hold the connection at the same time. But I agree with you, much of the time it's better not to talk if you can't speak from that place.

@DrewNows Great synchronicity, Alanis Morissette is the singer I've probably hated the most for the longest amount of time. I appreciate her now though, thank you. That reminds me of the other song I've HATED all my life. Oh life. Not only the things you passionately love but passionately hate are the most powerful pointers. Lyrics How can you see into my eyes like open doors? Leading you down, into my core Where I've become so numb, without a soul My spirit's sleeping somewhere cold Until you find it there, and lead it, back, home Wake me up inside Wake me up inside Call my name and save me from the dark Bid my blood to run Before I come undone Save me from the nothing I've become Now that I know what I'm without You can't just leave me Breathe into me and make me real Bring me to life Wake me up inside Wake me up inside Call my name and save me from the dark Bid my blood to run Before I come undone Save me from the nothing I've become Bring me to life Bring me to life Frozen inside, without your touch Without your love, darling Only you are my life Among the dead I've been sleeping a thousand years it seems Got to open my eyes to everything Don't let me die here Bring, me, to, life Wake me up inside Wake me up inside Call my name and save me from the dark Bid my blood to run Before I come undone Save me from the nothing I've become Bring me to life Bring me to life Bring me to life

Ramaji's 1000 has a few different possible effects on me. It exhausts me, pisses me off or I feel such synchronicity with it. Maybe those are just all the possible reactions I can have to life in general. I'm taking my time with it. I had the realization that I feel like since I'm not properly integrated, which is a concept, that I can't be any good to anyone, because I still keep forgetting that I am not an i. I just had a spectacular conversation with my parents. I had in a text conversation with Dad a week ago in which I tried to get him to stop thinking that identifying as an atheist would help him heal his deep disappointment and disillusionment with his Christian past. I thought I got too bold when I said "I can't wait until you go through your Christian revival stage." It started with him talking about how he talks to spiders. He always has made friends with the spiders in their bathroom and he was telling one how to build its web so that he wouldn't have to disturb it when he grabs his toothbrush. Mom overheard him talking to the spider about how it should build its web and the next day, it did just as he suggested. I told him that yes, it's real, it's meaningful and that's what faith means. Right now he has a miserable job, hauling pavement in a dumptruck with no air conditioning so he has LOTS of time to think. He said that it annoyed him that I said that about the revival stage, that he couldn't stop thinking about it and kept thinking of verses and how they still had meaning and I fully explained in stages how my awakening happened and the kill Buddha when you meet him meaning. I confessed about the grins on my face at the funerals I had to attend at the time and how the verses took on a new meaning and everything resolved in a full circle way. I can tell that they both deeply desire to have a resolution to Christianity, as I did but didn't understand. After Mom said, "If I had known this conversation would have happened I would have recorded it because it would have gotten thousands of views on youtube." I told her that you might think that sometimes but in reality, no one really cares.

@The Don Having young kids made me realize fully how deeply flawed and disconnected society is. Kids are meant to be raised in a tribe, a village or at least a caring community or extended family. The focus on materialism and the individual can make being a parent a devastatingly isolating experience. Stage orange society has made child rearing a living nightmare.

You feel disconnected. It's your fault you're disconnected, because there's no you. What the fuck? Where is the love in that? There's something, He says. And if you don't believe me here's a tree loaded with fruit and you never made a choice to eat from it, and halfway through picking off the fruits and eating them you realize what you've done. Nothing is inherent in something. In other words, nothing is none of your fucking business. The more you try to grasp something the more you come to know nothing. I hate this rural cut off from all opportunity area, what kind of idiotic ambitionless person wants to live here? I hate cities worse. I hate people and I detest their ambitions. It's a love/hate relationship, and I'd rather not deal with it at all. My lonely life is a consolation prize. At least the percentage of nature to utter bullshit is much more favorable in the middle of nowhere. We have designed towns, cities and communities based on a sense of separateness and a worship of materialism. We've turned paradise into a concrete jungle of hell. Where is the grace? Whatever happened to consent God, I didn't fucking ask to be born, to be born here, to be born me, and you say I did. You say I'm you and if I accept that I have no one left to blame. What impossible, maddening situation is this? You created someone to answer to, you created duality out of nonduality, now answer me God, where is the grace, where is the love? There IS something. There IS an I. Settle up you lying piece of shit.

Let's think about it in a different way, how and to where could you donate your money so that the exponential impact could potentially far exceed the compounding interest that investing it could make? Education? Raising consciousness? If you can't find an answer after lots of research maybe the answer is to wait.

I just finished listening to Leo's video on his blog from yesterday. I had an insight yesterday while running that "I want to see how Source sees." I realized when watching Leo's video that this is exactly what he means in different words, aligning with the will of God. During meditation recently, I realized that when I completely lose presence and think "I" thoughts I unconsciously rub my eyes. This morning I realized the symbolic connection between rubbing my eyes and wanting to see how Source "sees". Leo mentioned toward the end of the video the vision and inspiration that mystic or Gnostic Christianity has compared to that of Buddhism. If you've read many of my posts you probably know that I was raised Christian and very devout as a child and recently had a revival after an awakening. I'm very sorry if I got on your nerves during that time. I've made a lot of progress integrating the awakening and I had the insight after finding an empty humpty dumpty chip bag (litter gives me lots of great insights) that all religions, and all creation itself is the truth scattered. Humpty Dumpty falling off the wall is a metaphor for the creation of the universe. Just like I found so many missing puzzle pieces when I discovered Buddhism as an adult after only knowing Christianity, studying any religion or tradition with an open mind can be incredibly fruitful. When you are in the stage of finding insights from that newly discovered or rediscovered religion it seems that that religion is superior, but the puzzle piece that you were looking for is only superior to all the rest in the moment that you are looking for it and find it, when the puzzle is whole again, or even from a greater perspective outside of the one's who is doing the puzzle before it is complete, no puzzle piece is greater than any other. Loved the video, and am experiencing so much synchronicity watching your videos recently, thanks Leo! Anyone else have any thoughts or insights from it that they wanted to share?

@Truth Addict That's the BEST kind!

EVERYBODY SING WITH ME!!!

No "one" being is ever going to be a complete manifestation or reflection of God, God realized or not. Sometimes what someone doesn't embody is as enlightening as what they do embody. After all God loves a world with contrast or else the world could not be. You don't miss the water until the well runs dry.

Ralston just needs Jesus and a bit of Kali and he'll be good as new.

@Aakash It's the energy of the events that people feed off of. There's incredible power, whether for good or for bad that comes from a crowd of people with the same intention. Each and every one of us is in tune with collective consciousness, awakening is just a glimpse of the deep meaning and ramifications of oneness. There's no I to awaken. Just one energy, just the collective as a whole, just one consciousness.

@Aakash Why do you think people enjoy going to concerts and rallies so much?

@kieranperez You have so much going for you, I can see that through your posts. Your work ethic along with your desire for the truth, I really don't think you could fuck this up if you tried.