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I love this. Just connect with her as you are, with humor and love, I think that's the perfect approach. Encouraging her to truly connect with her own heart and intuition is a teaching beyond words.

@4201 Thank you!

An awakening experience is causeless, so no matter what cause you attribute it to, it's an experience that is actually an experience of lack. Lack of believed thoughts that something is wrong, lack of thoughts that SAY something is lacking, someone is lacking, that you already know what's going on. So we say it's an experience of love or wonder or however we describe it. It should be seen as an experience that raises your standards, now you KNOW/FEEL what is possible when we drop the thoughts that say otherwise. The way is to sink into feeling, dropping thoughts. It's a very old "trick" to attribute that happiness/lack of anything wrong TO a person, place, substance or particular experience in the past. This is what you've been doing your entire life, Santa Claus brought me what I asked for and I was happy for a few hours. Santa Claus doesn't exist, the toy didn't make you happy, but those circumstances and beliefs allowed you to experience a window of time where no thoughts arose that fueled an underlying feeling that something was missing. 11 year old you thought, "Having a nerf gun would be great, I wish I had a new nerf gun, there's nothing good on TV right now, my brother ate all the oreos, that asshole!" Nothing has changed since. Everything has changed. It's Christmas everyday. Merry Christmas! Happy Birthday! Raise your standards for how you feel! Don't mistake the thought "I should feel better" for feeling itself. That thought is just as useless as a thought equating happiness with oreos or the nerf gun. Also note "feel better" has a double meaning. It means you're more aware, you heighten your senses, see with more clarity, AND AND AND you FEEL love. Maaagic.

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@Meditationdude What's the difference between love and desire? What's the relationship between love and desire?

OMG, I want this on a t-shirt! It's like the perfect mix of "shit happens" and "life is good". There, you got your integration.

Why are there roller coasters, casinos, horror movies, any movies or stories at all, drugs? Why is the deepest pleasure chasing also its opposite? Cause it's chasing what you already are. But if you think that knowledge is IT, you're still riding those ups and downs cause you can't hold the thought in your mind all the time, so you'll be constantly forgetting and remembering it. It's too good to be true!

I don't think you have to do anything to integrate anything, just follow your heart in the moment. I live in a really remote area, and when I visited a major city as a an adult it completely blew my mind. I was in such a state of awe, just taking it all in. When I came home to my familiar little town, the same awe and taking it all in was there and it was such a strange incredible experience, to realize that there was no novel, no familiar, no natural, no marvels of engineering, but I WAS the awe. Celebrities so often seem to experience the same isolation that cave meditators would, it just looks different to us. I think going to the depth of the desire and realizing yourself beyond circumstances is the deeper desire. How it plays out in life is secondary, illusory.

Focusing on things that make you feel good is not ego backlash. The desire behind the junk food, etc, is to feel better. When you focus on the direct "goal" of feeling better, and allow yourself to feel better rather than demonizing all the things you go to to feel better you naturally make better feeling choices. Make a list of self care stuff, dark chocolate, fruit, an occasional unhealthy treat, watching a favorite movie, playing a favorite game. Make it intentional, and actually ALLOW yourself to relax and rewind. Your desire is to release resistance, meditation IS supposed to be one of these self care things, a time allotted to breathe deeply, let go and release resistance. Your goal is not to be one who meditates well, it's just to release resistance. Once you see this you'll have more awareness over what resistance is and you'll naturally make better choices, without the judgement.

Nope. You thinking of Natasha?

I do look good in black, but you might have me confused with Anna. I offered to mod but guess I'm a few crayons short of a box. Shouldn't have used that particular shade of green to color on the walls with I guess.

The main thing is what you've already done, made an intention to feel better about money. Look around or write a list of things you're inspired by or want without buying them. Generally tap into the feeling of inspiration more and more. If you feel really, really good about the idea of buying something, do it. You can also start to view it as supporting other businesses, find local food places or whatever places make you feel good and focus on the feeling of doing something good or supporting them. Donating to charity can help too. I struggled with this a long time, here's a funny example. Last fall I wanted an antique owl clock, the kind with the moving eyes. (I love old, creepy things, I dunno). So I bought one and it inspired a new design for my business that I made and am still making far more of off than I spent on the clock. When you allow inspiration, you get more of it. Nothing you give away is ever gone or lost.

Yes, definitely. Sometimes I even judge myself for doing it and feel like I shouldn't journal, (generally just when I'm caring about what others think of it and finding it ridiculous, cause it usually is) but it's revitalizing, clarifying, inspiring, an emotional release, and fun, it often just feels like laughing with friends in a way. I love surprises! (usually) Better to be authentically ignorant and enjoy the unveiling when it's ready than be like a kid who snoops around and tries to act happy on Christmas.

There's a deep truth here, but it can't be thought. If this insight is owned and held by the mind, no matter WHOSE mind you think "has" it, it's filtered through that particular identification. "God" in thought is an archetype, maybe you could even say it's the super ego. The super ego typically is the self critical voice and tries to get you to act moral and good, so you awaken and see that there aren't two of you, there is no actual super ego, and no threat behind it. But if you replace that voice with another voice that says "others aren't real", "I'm the only one here", you have not made any progress but just changed the beliefs of the super ego, you've changed morality and shoulds to the morality of having NO morality. It's the house swept clean that the demon invites seven more along with it to come occupy. It's a poor substitute for Source. There's no one who secures themselves after an awakening as the knower of anything. There's no one willing to trade actual love for the thought of love.

I WANT someone to play with, to channel with. Play stops the moment you care what other people think. That's when you stop really playing as a kid. THAT'S what I want. Never grew out of this. My cousin Danny did though, it was the most shocking transition from being SO much fun to too shy to even speak to me. Turned into a hermit or something. Now everyone just looks at me like... Oh God, his name IS Danny. Stephen King, me and you, same wavelength, dude. Except I don't like horror that much. Also, never read any of your books either though, sorry. Really though once you've transcended the physical, the play is OUT OF THIS WORLD. This missing what's already here is the source of my passion, my angst. Journaling just puts me in that author place of loving all this drama I'm creating, seeing that really, I'm not creating it at all. Did you just share a video of a collaboration of someone who doesn't collaborate and does everything herself, who collaborated with some guy and now he is dead? It's already a collaboration. The geese, all of it, already collaboration. Stop focusing on how it has to come. Collaborating with the dead, Dr.P, the Shining girls, Abraham Hicks, the channeling, spiritualism. Collaborating with nature. Sounds fantastical. Maybe it's just the training wheels for collaborating and living with "real" people. Sounds fantastical.

Why aren't you better at not reacting? Why are you fueling what you don't want? Why are you adding to the chain of pain? You're doing it right now, regretting this concept of yourself as if it's what you really are. I feel like I have no one to express anything to anymore. I feel completely cut off and I feel like this ship is going down. Ahem. You're not on this ship. I love this ship! It's so beautiful. Not even God himself could sink this ship. Himself? Ok, yeah God himself is sinking the ship. That's pretty funny. Ok, so I keep thinking, "you fucktard! You should be working! Not WASTING TIME KICKING AROUND ICE ON THE DECK after we hit that iceburg! You aren't stuck on this ship. You aren't going down with it! You could clean out your car or make money, or do something "important", and these old smacking myself up the head for wasting my time interacting with the world feeling bad. I want to choose something else not out of shaming myself or trying to be something more important or respectful but because I truly WANT something better. I don't want to cut off my nose to spite my face. People bring in so much contrast. Wow, the Titanic is a damn good analogy. We don't care about the people, we don't care about safety, we just want to be this spectacular fast example of the being the biggest, the best, the fastest, in the eyes of people. But the people ON the ship, nope we don't care about them. And, oh it got what what it sought out to be. It was truly, all it claimed to be. The Titanic is truly LEGENDARY. I am really thankful for these lessons. Why am I STILL watching this from a distance, seeing how WRONG it is? You're not always doing that. You and the geese are doing your work by not working. No one else has to get this. You don't have to be anything for anybody. This DOG is driving me insane! He keeps stealing things and driving me crazy! The dog and the Titanic and Captain fucking Ahab aren't the problem, your focus is. I think the italicized voice is supposed to sound more refined than this one! Let's just call it integration. I'm not so sure that's it. Who is the wise one here? Captain Ahab is that you? This is really going downhill, you know. Oh!!! Oh!!! The question isn't toned to imply that you're the only wise one, and I'm not, it's asking who is the wise one, like self inquiry. And the answer is, they can't be found. There aren't two of me, one that can find the other. So my surprise that people aren't really that wise and I can't find my God/Jesus/Captain Ahab figure and not be disappointed is my own belief that I have to be someone for somebody, and that there are two of me. So I need somebody to be something for me. Tricky. One neurosis creates the other. And that's us. Aren't we cute together? This could go on forever. It already has.

Actually, this place is your playground, it's pretty obvious.

No need for food, companionship or breathing either, but it still feels pretty damn good to carry on with.

Then it wasn't ever really compassion, but a label you stuck over compassion to avoid actually feeling it.

"Have" like, sitting on your bookshelf? The Nature of Consciousness is a masterpiece, world changing book.

Read his books, his videos don't really give the background you need. Sounds ironic, but seriously I'm not kidding. He also is very, very good at changing the teachings up to meet people where they are at and you see a lot of that in the videos.

No one has found stuff, they have seen, heard, smelled, touched and tasted. Then added the idea and names of things to make "sense" of senses.

Your awareness already is formless, infinite and omniscient. There is no "your" awareness, Awareness can never be owned. A concept or what can be conceived is the same. You are aware of thoughts, aware of sensations, but never them in exclusion of awareness. This is the big mistake most of us have made in believing a concept about how we were conceived. We give birth to ourselves every moment. We never die because that would just be a thought about ourselves, and we'd have to have a concept of ourselves and give birth to ourselves in order to think that thought at all.

I love the term spiritualist. This is what it really means though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritualism#:~:text=Spiritualism is a religious movement,which spirits continue to evolve. The Victorian era was AWESOME. Also terrible, cause everyone died from everything all the time, but spiritually open-wise and aesthetically AWESOME.