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My dad had one of those, he really liked it. You can also get a floor meditation cushion if you really care about posture.

It's a hunt for unicorn in the forest. The unicorn doesn't exist but you'll have a damn good adventure and discover a lot about the forest and yourself while you're trying to find the damn thing.

This is sort of like when you type out the same word so many times that it stops having any meaning. Looking at something stunningly beautiful also shuts the mind off. Lots of seemingly positive, negative and neutral things can lead us to a state of no mind.

@bejapuskas Yep. Smoking is a meditative, mindful breathing practice. I had that insight a while ago while I was running, I have a bit of a running addiction and it's because it's an easy way for me to breath mindfully without forgetting. A lot of bad habits are just unconscious ways of trying to be mindful. Getting lost in a TV show lets us have someone elses' experiences and escape our own repetitive thoughts. Nobody is sane, and no one can escape from spirituality.

I think I value collective happiness over personal happiness because this work has taught me that I AM the collective. I don't think I really have to choose. I'm getting much better at being able to be present with my life and not get caught in other people's pain. yet at the same time I try to have the courage to know what to do to help, even if that causes pain for the greater happiness. I was talking with my husband about this last night and I said how you couldn't be a good doctor if you tap into people's pain. You can't be there to do the greater good and help if you are caught in the empathetic suffering. it seems like a good righteous quality, but it's evil. That's the skill I'm working most on right now. I think Abraham Hicks introduced me to this idea in the first place.

@Truth Addict I so appreciate your perspective.

@Inliytened1 What type of things does it tell you to do/think? Examples?

@Shaun Think of duality as a tree, the trunk is One, but it branches out to many at it's roots and branches. Your mother is alive as your mother, but she is also part of you. You came from her. When exactly was the moment that she stopped being her and you started being you? The reason you feel love for her is that connection. You share the breath of life with her, just like you do me or anyone else. We are breathing the same air, made from the same stardust, communicating using the same pool of energy. We are one but we are separate so that we can love each other. I know it doesn't make sense, but can you feel it to be true?

@Inliytened1 It's really nice to hear from another actualized OCD person! Mine didn't disappear, I still have to follow it. I give myself some grace when I don't want to or delay. It almost always leads me to a realization or sign. It's still a pain in the ass sometimes though. @Robi Steel Wow, thank you. I love your signature quote as well. The end of Leo's latest video which I just finished was really encouraging. I have a really big issue with trailing off while speaking, I actually started making videos on youtube to try to fix it. I'll just dump thought spontaneously mid sentence and have since I was a kid. I'm starting to wonder if this isn't actually some sort of power too, my empty-headedness. I still need to learn how to speak through it though. I'm going to try to do as Leo said and progress slowly. I went too far, too fast with meditation. I've got all these books on deep subjects and I'm just overwhelmed. I think our brains are all wired really uniquely and unfortunately that means we can't follow any map.

@Aaron p AARON. No duality between insane and sane. What does that mean to you? We are ultimately seeing different sides of the same coin I think.

Friendships are just as important as romantic relationships, maybe more so. We often don't make time for our friends because we put romantic relationships, money and practical things over friends. Especially when we hit our late 20's and 30's and life gets in the way of fun and friendship.

It's doing by not doing. You're doing it now.

@Joseph Maynor

@Anton_Pierre "At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, 'Who, then, is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?' "He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them. And he said: 'Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me'” (Matthew 18:1–5, New International Version).

I feel you. I'm still annoying everyone all of the time it seems.

@Inliytened1 Yes sorry, was quoting from Nahm.

@Serotoninluv Eckhart Tolle calls in the "flowering of human consciousness" and compares it with the first flowers that evolved on earth. Their spread is exponential. I have the feeling that we are really close to a huge burst in exponential growth. No need to be sad, ultimately the universe is one being and will awaken as one.

Ok, so first, the whole one stomach, two lungs, thing...WOAH. Second... Does this mean we should just shut up about our experiences and that the need to share them inhibits our growth?

@Truth Addict Yes, but my journal is an open invitation.

@Truth Addict It's not rape if it's consensual.

@Truth Addict

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it does it make a sound? No.

Quite incredibly deep lyrics for a popular kids movie. I'd never heard the original until now. Leo, Leonard Cohen! You wrote this too.

@Aldo Have you seen this one?