Wilhelm44

Failure is such a great teacher of Surrender.

Thank you.

My two cents: Happiness reveal itself the more I see through the make belief reasons why supposedly I am not allowed to be happy right now as I am.

Being good enough for no reason.

Do what you came here to do.

Imagine a completely different past, one where you have always been infinitely fulfilled,

@Space Lizard

Zero evidence I'm guessing you believe UFO's are a hoax, we are the pinnacle of creation, and we're all alone in the universe ? If violence and struggle breeds intelligence, Afghanistan should be a desirable place to live in. The fallacy is thinking that a peaceful and enlightened civilization will be boring and not creative.

Beautiful.

A truly terrible childhood can be difficult to recover from.

Yes, the more the unreality of the ego is seen through, the more we live from a different place all together.

Ego is just survival program without any independent intelligence. What do you mean by dysfunctional ?

Yes, it's inevitable. If there are advanced civilizations in other galaxies, which there undoubtedly are, they would have had to reach a certain level of peace in order to advance. Think of those advanced civilizations as being like earth's future selves.

Who says you can't have solitude, a business, and a partner ?

What do you mean by: "But not ego is now dysfunctional" ?

If it's a healthy relationship, what is the voice screaming about ?

It's just part of being born on this planet, the veil of forgetting. "I forgive myself for having forgotten who I am."

No matter how awake you might be, simply notice where there's still subtle identification . . . fertile ground for devilry.

Define terribly wrong ?

@KatiesKarma Who would you be without the thought that says you are in the body ?

There have been Golden Ages before. We might be surprised at how quickly things can change when certain tipping points in consciousness are reached.

Nice affirmation for contemplation: "I forgive myself for having forgotten who I am."

@Adodd Spiritual bypassing tends to be linked to the concept of 'staying with what is'. In other words to sit with one's pain and not to sweep things under the rug. But sometimes this so called spiritual bypassing can actually be a good thing. One can get stuck in just sitting with one's pain. So taking the counterintuitive route, and simply imagining a new past where you were infinitely fulfilled, can work wonders. A healthy combination of shadow work and bliss work is key.