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Take a look, it's in a book. Don't judge a book by its cover. Discovery, It might be healing, You might make a full recovery.

@Nahm ?

I dunno. Are you indifferent to indifference?

your Self

Not recognizing your Self.

One year off, his mansion burned down in 1946.

There's nothing new under the sun. The sun is not outside you.

@abrakamowse Yep. I think I got the discovery stories mixed up the the Gospel of Judas, I'm not sure.

Recognition of your Self.

Roger's teaching style never would have appealed to me earlier on but he was recommended in this older thread, which I found very helpful in itself. Roger states that his teachings give you new conditioning, (which we often rebel against, but has it's place if you've got the big picture) and are very practical and target beliefs that sort of haunt us and cause suffering in our daily lives. He also has a way of dissolving our grand fantasies (not the real ones, just the ones holding us from it ) about what enlightenment is. Highly recommended if you're drawn to him. Roger's youtube channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3nxl1CdbbysJB_KUBaLEfw webpage- https://www.rogercastillo.org/home

It was only discovered in 1945? ? Missed that somehow.

When you specify and allow a desire you instantly feel better. Pure desire is like an inspiration that comes to an artist. However, we often associate desire with the suffering of noticing that we don't have what we want yet. So we have split ourselves and created a tension. If you try not to feel this tension by pretending it's not there, you won't do the work to specify your desires. After you specify a desire the work is in dropping the tension, the belief that it's not there yet. Everything we want is because we think we'll feel better in the having of it. That's the essence of desire. So when you align with feeling better and understand the root of all desire, you can get more specific about desires, if you want. It becomes creation, like inspiration to the artist rather than survival. Creative mode, not survival mode.

I suspect that a lot of activism comes from people thinking that they can bring about change in return for their suffering for a cause. They believe something like, "the more upset I get about how dolphins are treated, the better it is for dolphins. The more people I guilt others into also feeling horrible about this, the better for the dolphins." God/Source is way better than that. Real change comes from inspired action and inspiration, not despair, worry, fear, guilt, shame and demonization. Being conscious of an issue means realizing that it's a problem and change is called for but also means being open to inspiration. Epiphanies and new solutions come from a relaxed mind. So it's not the activism itself but the attitude behind it, I think.

Separate colors don't exist without the white light illuminating them. Red reflects/ rejects red wavelength light and looks red, it absorbs all other colors. Separation, like in the example of color, within creation and appreciation is wholeness. It works the same with personality. Misunderstood, felt separation and personality for the maintenance of suffering is a false feeling of separation. True personality exists within the act of expression and conscious interaction. Depression and repression are the act of holding on to the personality as an idea of oneself, when personality is something we give off, like light. It's for giving. There aren't two of you. There's no one that can know the other. That's why when you're in the creative flow, "dancing like no one is watching", you feel awesome. You're not even there, you're one with everything. But when you're self aware you split yourself in two, wonder why you fall on your ass and then to add insult to injury blame yourself for it.

@Chris365 THANK YOU!!!

I have so much respect for people who learn a second language and actually communicate with it. My high school made a mistake and accepted a student who knew NO English whatsoever, only Spanish. I ended up in gym class with her, and I was the only one who had taken Spanish at all. I tried my best to communicate with her, and very rarely did I get anything across, except after a few tries she burst into laughter and so did I. That was the only real communication that happened.

Some women dress to impress men, others dress to impress other women, others try to dress to impress everyone at once, others dress to piss off everyone, but really you should dress only for you.

The neck bone's kneckted to the... @Striving for more You might need to retrain yourself to lift weights without straining your neck and improperly engaging your neck muscles in the process. Also some ab exercises can be hard to do without improperly straining your neck. A lot of people have a hard time with this. Getting a good pillow for neck support can make a difference long term if it's a posture thing as well. A lot of the time we do intense workouts and sit on the computer with bad posture the rest of the day, not a good combination.

What the mind thinks will make it happy is never right. You can't remember actual happiness, only the things that seemed to be around when the feeling arose. So you equate happiness with the things, but if that were true, hedonic adaptation wouldn't be a thing.

@How to be wise Sometimes the people who challenge and help me grow the most are also the biggest pains in the asses.

Putting conditions on what can't have conditions is tricky. Anyone on earth can say that when they are happy it's impossible to be angry. It's at the same time way more subtle and way more radical than that. We filter what people say based on what we expect or desire to get from enlightenment, but there's no one to get anything from anything. I REALLY want to watch this but also really don't want to subscribe. So torn.

@blackchair Working on it. Just have to stop thinking I already know what people are thinking first.

I'm not, I was just being a pain in the ass.

@blackchair Oh! ok!

@Natasha