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@Nahm Because it's the shape with the least amount of surface area, they form themselves even if it appears that we are forming them.

@Nahm Bubbles are fun.

@Nahm I like it.

What if he was the perfect embodiment of enlightenment in a human being? What if God (yourself) said, fuck it, lets just show humanity what their potential is, I know it's going to make waves but I'm getting bored here so let's see how people react. He died for our sins in a lot of ways. You can look at him as your highest self, someone who put love and truth above his own survival. He talked about how if you want Life you must die to self, but then he was literally killed by the collective ego. If everything is you, then you both were Jesus and killed him, you were the Pharisees and the Romans and all the disciples too. He died for all those sins and all the future ones. Love is grace, it's knowing that everything and everyone "sinful" as a part of you, and it is the only way to purify yourself.

The Gospel of Mary Magdalene 22) The Savior said, All nature, all formations, all creatures exist in and with one another, and they will be resolved again into their own roots. 23) For the nature of matter is resolved into the roots of its own nature alone. 30) Matter gave birth to a passion that has no equal, which proceeded from something contrary to nature. Then there arises a disturbance in its whole body. 31) That is why I said to you, Be of good courage, and if you are discouraged be encouraged in the presence of the different forms of nature. Matt.22 Verses 34 to 40 [36] Master, which is the great commandment in the law? [37] Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. [38] This is the first and great commandment. [39] And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

@kieranperez Ugh, I know. I try to embrace the irony. @Serotoninluv Yes! I don't have much of a problem spending too much time online in the summer, it's too beautiful outside.

Theme for the day, cycles.

It's ironic that I'm answering this since I've been spending so much time here lately, but this reeeally helped me with a Facebook addiction a few months ago.

Love is forgiveness, not support, in fact sometimes it completely flies in the face of things that are not love. "Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves." Matthew 21:12

@now is forever I'm not sure but I think that was true about them and is true of us all. We set an intention to love. We can't forgive the world if we can't also forgive ourselves for not being able to love it all the time.

@now is forever That's not true, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King and Jesus all had open hearts as they went around the world. Let's not say what else they have in common, ok?

@Shin

I think that God is the Author of life, God wraps up one story nicely, takes a break and then gets to work on the next.

@Arcangelo Do you want respect or love?

@Stevo

The other night I gave my kid a hug and asked myself if I was doing it out of survival reasons. "Yeah, loving my kid is survival." Immediately I felt a bit sick. "Why am I even asking this question? I should be able to show love to my child without question!" "Because you want to be spiritual, you want to follow Leo's advice and be a part of the community on the forum, you want to rise above a need to survive." That made me feel sick too. Both times when I asked myself the question, even turning the question back in on itself, was FULL of judgement about survival being a "bad" thing. It's like I want to survive as something other than myself because who I am is not good enough. Focusing on what I DON'T like is survival. I don't like people who look creepy, I don't like the political party that hurts my community, etc. Do we not love ourselves enough to believe that we are worthy of life?

We've been programmed to smile and laugh.

hahaaha shin it's not funny for the 10th time it's actually fucking demeaning.

Actually that video is not that great at explaining it, as much as I love Abraham Hicks. Sorry. Give me some time I'll find a better one later today. Basically, the vortex is a natural high, the flow state, a meditative state, feeling like you're in love, seeing beauty that takes you breath away. That's "enlightenment... that feeling, that we all are searching for, that's what we are here to experience. Using both the law of attraction and great self discipline can make it so that you are in the vortex more and more of the time. It is "source" it is the energy that we are made of and it's that we all seek to connect to. Start at 8:20

@livg7046

Ooooh this is a great question. I think that we know what things end up putting us in the "vortex", if you're familiar with that term. So for me that's running, or getting into a freezing cold ocean or lake or meditating. I work through the resistance but ultimately I end up strongly in the vortex. However, if I avoid resistance and scroll down my Facebook feed for too long, I'll be waaaay out of the vortex. Sometime indulgence is well earned, like AFTER you go for the run or meditate. It's only when it's well earned that it makes you feel good the entire time. I think that's why you need Leo along with Abraham Hicks. Do the difficult thing, don't be a pussy! Pay attention to your feelings, do what feels good. There's the right time for each approach. "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven." Ecclesiastes

People appear to be fine but they aren't.

Hmm... that seems to be quite a theme lately.

@Nahm That took me a while.

Hahahahaha! The spiritual ego's biggest disappointment maybe.