mandyjw

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.

Well, it can't be horrible because no judgement can ever be true and Truth can never be pointed to. Mysterious. It is mysterious.

When I got groceries yesterday the cashier was Thomas. I've never had someone shame me so much for not bringing my reusable shopping bags. But you know what? I put them back in my car that very day so I can't forget them next time. Tell me about your dad?

Yeah and you know what? When I started watching Leo's videos he was one sexist mother fucker. Absolutely NO better than the Christians, in FACT the Christian men always treated me way better and more of an equal than the secular raised ones. They didn't treat me as an object. I just wanted them to be perfect, which they were far from. Why couldn't I appreciate them? I expect too much from people I guess. @now is forever It means twin, it points to something I need to awaken, it's a sign from greater consciousness, and it's not just a sign for me myself. It's one of the most powerful synchronicites. The Gospel of Thomas, Tsuki Tom, Thomas Pomroy, Thomas Eye buried in the same lot, the list goes on and on.

"There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus." Galatians 3:28

It's about enjoying the process, not the end result. It's sort of like building a sandcastle. You know it's going to get washed away, but you have fun building it anyway. So stop and smell the roses, look at the sky, don't be so focused on accomplishments and doing things for sake of getting something from them. We all get pulled in so forgive yourself for having expectations, a lot of the time we make them unconsciously.

I'm sorry to come here to complain but I'm just starting to realize how unconsciously sexist most people are. I think that my rural upbringing and tolerance to it was why I could tolerate Leo's videos 4 years ago in the first place. Some of us deal with it by hiding our feminine sides and becoming rigid and intellectual. Some of us go the opposite direction and deal with it by flaunting looks and sexuality. How much awareness does it take to stay, just as the perfect being that the Goddess made us to be? I just wanted to have this conversation before you leave, if you're inclined. It's a deep unhealed wound in my heart.

Oh duh, I'm a subscriber. Thanks for reminding me!

I've just been going with the flow. In the past year my six year old son started asking questions about magic, if it's real or not, about dragons, and lots of questions about God and what God can or can't do. He's a bit behind developmentally because he has mild autism. I try to explain infinity and nonduality as best as I can. The other tricky thing is that I know that most of his friends and teachers are going to have a very dualistic idea of God. So far we haven't had any funny situations come up. The most important thing to me is to teach them to love other people and be kind, and I let them be who they are within reason. Raising them when they are babies and toddlers is extremely difficult because it's so intuitive and what's required from you isn't great theory like Leo's video which is for parenting older kids. What's required is your presence. Just being ok during the tantrums and not losing your cool too can be incredibly difficult and exhausting. We have kids because we think we will be great parents, but in reality you feel like you're winging it and just getting by, and we all will mess up our kids somehow no matter how enlightened you are. It's a humbling and beautiful experience.