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I think the teachers we resonate with most mirror us and I think there is something to wavelengths. To be attracted to a teacher we both need to deeply resonate with something, see ourselves in them and also recognize something in them that we do not have and deeply desire to learn from them. The first video I found of Leo's was how to deal with anger. I was just searching youtube for answers because I realized I had a problem. I still find it funny that I still resonated with him so much when he admitted in the video that he doesn't really get angry and can't really understand it. Yet the video was still really helpful. I know my resonating with Eckhart Tolle was because his path of working through emotional pain without traditional practices was generally the one I was destined to follow until recently. The more work I do the more teachers resonate with me, even ones that infuriated me in the past. Sadhguru does kind of seem like king shit on turd island. But there's a certain perfection in it I guess.

"I'm sorry, wrong address." They only tell you what they need at first, if you don't listen and let them get too upset, they lose the ability to verbalize very quickly and it just devolves from there.

@Truth Addict There's no way you have low EQ. The heart and mind are one.

God. There's no instruction manual to the heart because it's all about the element of surprise and experience. EXCEPT that here's the big dirty secret. The heart and mind are one. Merry Christmas, Happy Birthday.

Well, they are completely unpredictable. Maybe you get plates thrown on the floor, maybe they pick all the tulips out of your garden while you're looking at your phone, maybe they want to scream for a solid half hour because you said they can't have more ice cream, maybe they give you the best hug you've ever had and they say 'I love you", maybe they hide and poop under the kitchen table because they are scared of using the potty and think pooping under the table while everyone is eating would be the less embarrassing option.

What if the three year old IS your heart?

Just follow your wants and impulses without fear of judgement or losing love from anyone. No filters.

@tsuki It will stay that way until you let it come out. You have no idea how connected I feel to my three year old today.

@Zigzag Idiot I love you anyway.

Our inner child is needy sometimes. That's just how kids are. It's ok.

Time is just a buffer, it's necessary for creation, it gives space for thoughts and feelings to arise and desires to be born. There's no journey without time, and no journey without desire. You can alter your perception of it, if you want.

@Shaun Yes, it's seen through all kinds of eyes and perspectives, but each are ultimately your own and you can even tap into them and experience them if you want. @Truth Addict That's very true.

You know how Jesus went around asking people to leave what they were doing and follow him? Some left their work and followed him but the people who were too attached and caught up in it wouldn't. There is no opportunity of hearing a call to a greater life's purpose, or a big adventure if you identify with your current work. I was talking with a friend about how a year working in food service completely changed her as a person and gave her confidence around people. She enjoyed the job while she was doing it and got a lot of growth out of it, but she moved on to something better. Always be ready for the call, but know that each and every person you interact with is an angel of God. There's a difference between resigning yourself to something and enjoying every step of the path. You enjoy the sensation of walking it and all the sights along the way but your purpose for walking is a desire to see where the path is going.

You're awakening! You're creating your reality. It happened to me too, especially with the number 666, which I hated and feared most of my life.

@Mikael89 Madonna, and the her song "Like a Prayer" has kept showing up for me lately. The lyrics from the new song are pretty amazing. @Truth Addict Chickens are scared so it doesn't take much for them to face their fears and feel alive. I am a chicken, you're right. "We can light up the dark Everyone has a spark Don't tell me to stop 'Cause you said so (Oh Yeah) Your future is bright (Bright) Just don't turn off the light (Lights) Tell the sun not to shine (Bright) 'Cause you said so"

You can have all kinds of intense spiritual experience while running. I haven't had that one but I've had different kinds. There are people who are addicted to distance running because they have no knowledge or framework of spirituality, but they are addicted to the meditative states and the highs you get from them and need the experience of running to get it. Running has the potential to both stop your thoughts so you feel like you have disappeared and also to put you into a flow state where you can channel insights. It's like an underrated chameleon of spiritual practices.

@Truth Addict Because he wanted to feel alive.

@Truth Addict "No one lights a lamp and puts it in a cellar or under a basket. Instead, he sets it on a lampstand, so those who enter can see the light." Luke 11:33

If all you have is a fire hydrant, be happy with the fire hydrant. If you're at Disney, make the most of what it has to offer. Dogs don't build theme parks, nor do they build fire hydrants, they don't build houses so they don't care if they burn down. We have opposable thumbs, we are meant to use tools, we are made to build things.

Trying to determine how advanced someone is spiritually is like trying to catch slippery eels. The impermanent ever changing nature of someone's wokeness is as apparent online as it is in person. One moment they are a Buddha and the next the change back into a unconscious devil. Just like myself. With that said, yes this group is amazing. I not long ago shunned the mental framework that Leo provided, thinking experience was everything. I created a false duality between conceptual understanding and experience. I demonized people for using psychedelics because I knew they weren't part of my current path. But I needed the lessons from them, I needed the lessons from other people using them. We are all one, the forum is all one but yet, this forum and everyone in it is scattered across the world, one with the world.

There are so many years of beliefs that things around me are mundane, that things that happen aren't meant for "me" but someone else, or randomly or by accident, that other people somehow water down the magic of everything. Something I heard in an Abraham Hicks recording changed my belief which shortly became reality. She told a story about a little girl who was watching the big finale parade at Disney Magic Kingdom, and she just stood there with her arms crossed and a big frown on her face. Her mother tried to make her enjoy it, "This is all for you you know, all of it." she said. "No, it's not! It's for all these people." The little girl replied. And Abraham Hicks said that was our problem, we don't believe in magic, we don't believe that all of this is happening for us. We think that other people dilute our joy and our experience instead of enhancing it. Then when you open yourself up to magic, you fall in love with it, you believe it and amazing coincidences happen, and the world turns into a fairytale, a scavenger hunt of knowledge, clues and symbols. Everything suddenly is happening FOR you, every teaching you come across has a message just for you. But then, there's everyday life too. And there are those same people playing out the same patterns, but they are YOU too! It's maddening. That's what meditation is for. God is too kind to bestow this kind of crazy on someone who doesn't know where the off switch to his mind is. I sometimes feel like God misjudged me and made a mistake with me though. My off switch is a bit faulty.

People keep saying, a year, months to integrate. Is that a common pattern or are awakenings as unique as the person? I don't even know what integration is anymore, now that I'm the universe. How am I supposed to integrate all THAT?

Love really pisses some people off. They make fun of your art, that's where the courage part comes in. Thanks for having the courage to build something great @Leo Gura

It's utterly abundant and there are are no mistakes, yet it takes a lot of courage to make a work of art out it. Because courage and love are exactly the same thing.

I think way too many people think that they are supposed to create nothing, or to desire nothing. Everything is built out of nothingness so if you don't want to get creative with nothingness, you're like a kid in art class who just sits there and stares at a blank paper without having any fun.