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Although a persistent one

And I would add: self validation, self acknowledgement, self love.

“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Seeing all aspects of the past as perfect. Marveling at everything. Noticing thoughts and beliefs I adopted along the way.

@Nahm Thank you

@Nahm Thank you.

It's an illusion in the sense that I am not ultimately the character that you see in my profile picture. But it's also not an illusion in the sense that if I step in front of a moving bus, my body will probably be squashed

@karkaore True

@karkaore We could say everything is a belief, the earth is a belief, the moon is a belief, parallel realities is a belief etc. All are imaginary in a sense. Yet this does not stop us from sharing with each other how we experience these different aspects of reality, and I feel there's some magic in sharing our unique experiences. We could simply dismiss all aspects of reality as pure belief and say no more, but somehow I feel that takes away from the richness of our interaction. My humble opinion.

@karkaore Ideas and concepts can be useful in pointing to the moon/truth, but you are right in that they are not actually the moon/truth. Still, how else would we communicate with each other ?

@karkaore Now, Consciousness, You, Love . . . all words given to the One indescribable Reality. Within that One Reality I feel there are infinite parallel realities all connected to each other. For example, if I forgive myself for something that happened in the past, I actually change the energy of that event in the past, causing a positive ripple effect flowing to other events in my future. Feels kind of magical to me, but I could be wrong in my interpretation of how things really work.

@karkaore Are you saying Now is a belief ? Surely Now is Consciousness itself . . .

@Nahm Wow, feels like you just collapsed all parallel realities with that sentence I guess I kind of relate to it through the principle of the many and the one. The Now being the one all encompassing reality, and within the Now we have infinitely many parallel realities. And in our daily experience we tend to oscillate between the many and the one. Or am I missing something crucial here ?

@Nahm "The enlightened is the last, never the first, never the only, always the last." This really struck a chord with me. Please can you say a bit more about what you meant by that ?

@diamondpenguin Surely the way forward would be some optimal combination of capitalism and socialism, not just one or the other.

Happy Birthday good man !

@karkaore So you don't believe in parallel realities at all then ?

I love money. I love the ocean. I love the mountains. I love myself. I love you. No difference.

I would also add that having any sense of guilt towards one's past, also creates a resistance to receiving money. And spiritually minded people tend to be experts at carrying guilt around, even if in a very subtle form

I think what it boils down to is that a lot of spiritual people still see spirituality as something separate from, and more lofty than the practical world of money etc. In other words there is still some kind of internal split. Resistance to money can have many roots, but the ultimate cure is still self love.