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“What you seek is seeking you.” Rumi

Light enlightens things. No light, no appearance of things, no separate things. So if you see something that seemingly reflects light back to you, it's all the same light. He who smelt it dealt it. Call it your light if you want, you're the light. Light of course, is neither a movement (wave) or a thing (particle) and for us to call it one or the other, we the observer, decide which it is. Are you, the observer, a movement, a verb, something you are doing, or are you also a solid thing? If you were a solid thing, then how could you observe at all?

No idea who that is, but if you are God, then "you" are not, and God is not, and you are not God, nonduality, both statements simultaneously true/false. You create uncertainty and confusion by trying to figure out what "this" is, in exclusion of what it's not. Sink into the uncertainty and confusion and you find it to be the very creative power itself. Knowing is Unknowing, you cannot learn anything unless you drop the current perspective that says it "knows" and become aware/open to something entirely new. You cannot find the answer to a question if you keep asking and feeling the absence of the answer, you must be open to the answer. Otherwise you remain someone who knows that they don't know.

Huh, I just realized, doom is mood spelled backwards. That's a good one.

If you really, truly believed you were doomed and had nothing to lose, you'd discover that you have the upmost freedom to relate to others, clearly, purely, uninhibitedly from the heart. What gets you is the split energy, you're doubting your own desires but you won't let it go either. You are already fulfilled, happily ever after, but you are SO fulfilled and happily ever after that you can create and evolve and experience love in the world in a plethora of forms. This inclination comes in the form of a desire that comes straight out of the already fulfillment that you are. That sense of doom, (really, that sense that it's already done), IS the sense that you have nothing to lose and are here only for the joy of it. There is no possibility of loss or missing out on anything. Because your desire comes straight from fulfillment and what is already whole, doubting it feels so, so wrong. You are only sensing the power of your own perfect guidance system, here to guide you to create whatever you want. Now that you know that, check it off the list of your inspection paper, "yep guidance systems works fine", NOW get in the car, go where you wish and put it to productive use and appreciate it instead of using it against yourself. It's here to work for you. It's all for you.

So think of a rubber band held at a point and actively pulled/stretched from another. That's you. That's your attention. That's your a tension. For you to become, be-come, be, (a point) come, (stretch/move), you have to exist (stick out) of a background of nonbecoming and your tension, your sticking out (existing), your be-coming must always "be" its true nature, nonbeing, nonmovement, nonexistance. Our existance is like the universe sliding down a steep, snowy hill enjoying the thrill of nonresitance and drudging back up it again to repeat the thrill. It's all fun and games until someone forgets it's all fun and games. You can just sit down in the snow if you want while you remember that you're not compelled to repeat the cycle. It doesn't matter. Since thier own attension is the ONLY tension, there is no tension imposed upon them. Up on is another way of saying be come, or tension/attention, a thing and a movement. upon (prep.) early 12c., from Old English uppan (prep.) "on, upon, up to, against," from up (adv.) + on (prep.); probably influenced by Scandinavian sources such as Old Norse upp a. On, Upon. These words are in many uses identical in force, but upon is by origin (up + on) and in use more distinctly expressive of motion to the object from above or from the side. On has the same force, but is so widely used in other ways, and so often expresses mere rest, that it is felt by careful writers to be inadequate to the uses for which upon is preferred. [Century Dictionary, 1895] https://www.etymonline.com/word/upon Once. Upon. A. Time. Happily. Ever. After. And before the story, the middle of the story, and after the story is just... your Aware, attention creates the story. "Happily ever after is the order of the Universe." -Abraham Hicks

tension (n.) 1530s, "a stretched condition," from French tension (16c.) or directly from Latin tensionem (nominative tensio) "a stretching" (in Medieval Latin "a struggle, contest"), noun of state from tensus, past participle of tendere "to stretch," from PIE root *ten- "to stretch." The sense of "nervous strain" is first recorded 1763. The meaning "stress along lines of electromotive force" (as in high-tension wires) is recorded from 1785. attention (n.) late 14c., "a giving heed, active direction of the mind upon some object or topic," from Old French attencion and directly from Latin attentionem (nominative attentio) "attention, attentiveness," noun of action from past-participle stem of attendere "give heed to," literally "to stretch toward," from ad "to, toward" (see ad-) + tendere "stretch," from PIE root *ten- "to stretch." tender (adj.) "soft, easily injured," early 13c., from Old French tendre "soft, delicate; young" (11c.), from Latin tenerem (nominative tener) "soft, delicate; of tender age, youthful," from a derivative of PIE root *ten- "to stretch," on the notion of "stretched," hence "thin," hence "weak" or "young." Compare Sanskrit tarunah "young, tender," Greek teren "tender, delicate," Armenian t'arm "young, fresh, green." tend (v.1) "to incline, to move in a certain direction," early 14c., from Old French tendre "stretch out, hold forth, hand over, offer" (11c.), from Latin tendere "to stretch, extend, make tense; aim, direct; direct oneself, hold a course," from PIE root *ten- "to stretch." You cannot stretch anything without having two seperate points. The act of stretching is an act in duality with creates tension and then the enivitable release of that resistance, momentum and all movement. Tension could not be created at all if the true nature was not non-resistance and nonseperation. Ok, so this is where string theory comes from, but actually because there is no matter outside Awareness of it, it's the observer holding the attention or stretching thier own attention from observer to object that is the "string", so to speak. Every love song or love story is an exploration of the same sort, string theory is an exploration. Every scientist's cold, logical contemplations and observations are as emotional and subjective as an Elvis song and every Elvis song is as cold and impersonal as a scientist's data.

Yes, if you abide in/as awareness (which is what deep sleep is) and stop unecessary thought loops by tapping into inspiration, appreciation and joy you waste less energy in thought and needless action. Sleeping less can be a possible side effect of doing that. Fasting or eating less can be too. I don't think I'd recommend going about it backwards though.

Awakening and liberation is about releasing resistance. The path of least resistance looks different for everyone. If you're taking spiritual teachers too "seriously" in first place, there might just be some unnecessary resistance in that. If there is true resonance (Love) beyond judgements and expectations with a teacher, technique, or anything, it's the path of least resistance.

"You accept very low standards." THIS is what I was asking last night, I was starting to literally ask it from my dad and something stopped me, why do personal development coaches help but also hinder when they tell us/motivate to set the bar higher? Because the real standard you should be raising is how you want/expect to FEEL, your very Awareness of feeling. Everything else is only a very indirect desire to feel better and will come at the expense of feeling unless this is understood.

@Dark_White ?❤ @Swarnim Fall completely and totally in love with your life. Appreciate everything and everyone as it is. Meet feelings of suffering with curiosity and openness knowing that the suffering is a misunderstanding, and if we seek to understand it through the means to an end seeking motivation of wanting to avoid it, like the ox, it cannot show itself to us.

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@Mason Riggle Careful what you wish for cause you just might get it.

When you think it's something that it's not, actually. Desire or authentic wants are not thoughts, not things, desire is a feeling. A feeling can only be felt right now, or it's a thought, not a feeling.

Wanting what you don't want creates resistance. So you can do that, if you want. You realize how many secondary cop out "wants" you/people have that you/people don't actually want? I want to love myself and feel good, but little Timmy hurt my feelings, so I need him to think I'm cool! Then I'll feel good about myself! I need light up Star Wars shoes because they are cool, Timmy wears them. I want light up Star War shoes. Well no, actually I want to love myself and feel good about myself. Enlightenment and light up star war shoes are sometimes the same indirect, forgotten core desire.

Why does it matter to you what they consider themselves? Your idea of privilege is your own. You don't generally give much thought to ways in which you have freedoms others don't do you? Jealousy often comes from a failure to believe in one's own desires and dreams, and a lack of attention to appreciating yourself and others.

@Raptorsin7 You can't lose or find what's not located.

Same cliche advice I wrote in everyone's yearbook when I was that age, still applies, more than ever. Follow your heart.

A bunch of things sort of culminated and I *realized* and it's gonna sound dumb when I say it, cause it's obvious but I realized it's about inviting hard feelings to me. Now I'm all over-enthusiastic over here like, "here, kitty, kitty", and nothing wants to come to me. Avoid A void. late Middle English: from Old French evuider ‘clear out, get rid of’, from vuide ‘empty’ (see void). Wow, wow, wow.

People who never identified with what they know already have an "in" when it comes to spiritual stuff. But you gotta drop the identification with being the "dumb one" or the one who "doesn't know" to really cash in on that. Who knows you don't know? You know why you're doing this, to feel good, you're interested in feeling good. Do you realize how much unencessary crap you cut through right there? Do you realize how wise that statement really is?

No one wants to change for any other reason than they want to feel better about themselves. Well, you can feel better about yourself right now, and everything will change, even though it doesn't matter anymore. We think to put the cart in front of the horse, but thinking will never be feeling, and what you want is to feel better. Feeling doesn't know time, it's only ever now.

The more you look for flaws the more you'll see. The more you look for things to appreciate, the more you'll find to appreciate. There aren't two of you, one that can judge the other and find the other lacking or falling short. It's an exploration, an adventure with no end, because what you truly are is not limited and finite, you are infinite. You would not want there to be an end, but if you aren't quite seeing it as an adventure for you to enjoy and aren't having fun, then it's not you that needs to change but your relationship with you. The only real end so to speak is that you will see through the reality of the self that you wish to change, and realize that there are not two of you. Ever notice how you can't "get" a joke if you're stressed, anxious or taking part of it personally? "Shadow work" or light work works JUST like that. As stuff starts to bubble up, it is seen as impersonal and is seen as the Love that it is. As long as there's a self trying to change itself into something it thinks it will like better than what it already is, you cannot see this, because it's not in alignement with the timeless, infinite, whole Love that IS already its true Self, true clarity, the very foundation for change itSelf.